INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
made on the Russian social network VKontakte in the summer of 2022
The court handed down three-and-a-half-year sentences for each post, totaling seven years.The posts were said to have encouraged writing
letters to three Russian men convicted of setting fire to military registration and enlistment offices, as well as three Belarusian men
convicted of setting fire to a railway relay cabinet in the Belarusian city of Gomel.Menshikova currently resides outside of Russia, where
in absentia for critics of the Russian government and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.In July, exiled journalist Mikhail Zygar was
sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in absentia, and in August, opposition figure Dmitry Gudkov, who also resides outside of Russia, was
sentenced to eight years in absentia.
