“I miss Komi, I miss Syktyvkar. I even thought about coming back, but I realized that I would be coming back to jail,” said Valera Ilyinov, an exiled native of Russia’s republic of Komi, located about 1,000 kilometers northeast of Moscow. His reservations about returning home are not unwarranted. Last month, the 24-year-old founder of Komi’s flagship independent news outlet Komi Daily was fined for violating Russia’s censorship laws twice in one week. On May 30, Komi’s Syktyvdinskiy district court fined Ilyinov 30,000 rubles ($337) for “discrediting” the Russian military in an anti-war stateme…