Russian film director Ivan Vyrypayev has been retried and sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in absentia on the charge of "discrediting the Russian armed forces." The Basmanny district court in Moscow pronounced the ruling on August 13. Vyrypayev was initially sentenced to eight years in prison on the same charge in December 2023, but that court ruling was canceled earlier this year. Vyrypayev has publicly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and he renounced his Russian citizenship in May 2022 and obtained a Polish passport. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here.
Russian Film Director In Exile's Prison Sentence Reduced In Retrial
Russian playwright, screenwriter, film director Ivan Vyrypayev (file photo)