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Siberian Artist Gets 9 Years In Prison For Wiring $30 To Ukraine


Tatyana Laletina
Tatyana Laletina

The Tomsk regional court in Siberia said on July 11 that 21-year-old artist Tatyana Laletina had been handed a nine-year prison term two weeks earlier for wiring $10 to a Ukrainian fund on February 24, 2022, the day when Russia started its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and then another $20 two months later. An associate of Laletina had said earlier that the artist was detained in late February for sending $30 to Ukraine. Further details of the case and how Laletina pleaded are unknown. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here.

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