Military Court Jails Soviet Dissident Skobov 16 Years for ‘Justifying Terrorism’

The Moscow Times

The Moscow Times

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Petersburg has sentenced the 67-year-old Soviet-era dissident Alexander Skobov to 16 years in prison and fined him 300,000 rubles (€3,300) for a social media post he wrote, independent news outlet RusNews reported on Friday.
Novaya Gazeta. Europe
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DRAMATIC footage has emerged showing a brave Russian dissident calling tyrant Vladimir Putin a murderer and slamming him as the "new Hitler".
The Sun
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In the Soviet Union, Skobov was repeatedly charged with “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” and was twice forcibly confined to psychiatric institutions.
Guardian

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