In July 2024, a military court in Saint Petersburg convicted Russian artists Anastasia Dyudyaeva and her husband Alexander Dotsenko on charges of “public calls for terrorism” after they placed anti-war messages—some in Ukrainian, one reading “Putin to the gallows”—on napkins or postcards in a Lenta supermarket. Dyudyaeva received a 3½-year sentence; Dotsenko, three years. They denied wrongdoing, asserting their creative expression was mischaracterized. Their home, which had hosted anti-war exhibitions, was searched, and they were added to Russia’s registry of “terrorists and extremists.”
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