A court in Russia's northwestern city of Gatchina on January 25 sent a couple to pretrial detention on a charge of calling for terrorist acts by placing pro-Ukrainian leaflets in a local grocery store. Anastasia Dyudyayeva and Aleksandr Dotsenko were detained after police searched their home a day earlier. In November, a court in St. Petersburg sentenced activist Aleksandra Skochilenko to seven years in prison for using a handful of price tags in a city store to distribute information about Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The court found Skochilenko guilty of distributing "false" information about Russia's armed forces. To read the original story by RFE/RL's North.Realities, click here.
Russian Couple Arrested For Placing Pro-Ukrainian Leaflets In Grocery Store
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