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Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko, freed in a prisoner swap this month, relaxes on the grass in a park in Koblenz, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Visitors admire the Sistine Chapel inside the Vatican Museums on the occasion of the museum's reopening, in Rome, Monday, May 3, 2021. The Vatican Museums reopened Monday to visitors after a shutdown following COVID-19 containment measures. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Sasha Skochilenko, a 33 year-old artist and musician shows a heart behind bars in the court room as she waits for a hearing in the Vasileostrovsky district court in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. A court in St Petersburg has to deliver a verdict to a young artist Sasha Skochilenko on charges of spreading "fakes" about the Russian military after she replaced four small price tags in a St. Petersburg supermarket with anti-war slogans. The prosecution asked to sentence her to 8 years in prison. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Russian court convicts a woman for protesting the war in Ukraine in latest crackdown on free speech

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Sasha Skochilenko, a 33-year-old artist and musician, walks escorted by officers to the court room for a hearing in the Vasileostrovsky district court in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Oct. 19, 2023. Skochilenko was arrested in April 2022 on the charges of spreading false information about the army after replacing supermarket price tags with ones decrying what the Kremlin insists on calling a "special military operation" in Ukraine. The prosecution on Wednesday demanded an eight-year prison sentence for her. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Russia seeks an 8-year prison term for an artist and musician who protested the war in Ukraine

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People line up to visit a newly opened restaurant in a former McDonald's outlet in Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Hundreds of Western brands have pulled their business from Russia after troops were sent into Ukraine. Some McDonald’s restaurants became Vkusno i Tochka ("Tasty — Period"), offering mostly the same menu. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia’s year of war: Purge of critics, surge of nationalism

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