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A Russian military court sentenced Ukrainian Krystyna Liubashenko to 12 years in prison for publicly playing a recording of an anti-war speech and a Ukrainian anthem and launching balloons with a Russian opposition flag, Mediazona reported on June 17. Liubashenko, the 35-year-old mother of two daughters, was sentenced under the charges of “spreading disinformation about the war” and “taking part in a terrorist organization,” the Russian independent media outlet wrote. Russia has widely used the charge of supporting or planning “terrorism” as a means of suppressing any perceived dissent against…

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