The deputy leader of Russia’s Yabloko party, which opposes the war in Ukraine, was convicted yesterday of spreading lies about the Russian army and jailed for seven years, in a verdict he said showed public dissent had become illegal.
Maxim Kruglov, 39, a former legislator in Moscow’s city legislature, was arrested in October and charged over two posts he made on the Telegram social media network in 2022, the year Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine.
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