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A tribunal successful Far East Russia’s Zabaikalsky portion sentenced writer Nika Novak to 4 years successful situation for collaborating with a overseas state, Russian media reported Tuesday.
Novak, the erstwhile editor-in-chief of the determination quality outlet Zab.ru, was arrested successful Moscow successful December 2023 and transferred astir 4,700 kilometers (2,900 miles) eastbound to Chita, the superior of the Zabaikalsky region, for a closed-door proceedings that began successful October.
On Monday, Novak wrote connected her Telegram transmission that she was barred from contacting her parent successful Chita, who is listed arsenic a witnesser successful the case.
The Zabaikalsky Region Court recovered Novak blameworthy of “confidential collaboration” with an unspecified overseas state, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which cited anonymous sources acquainted with the matter. Novak volition service her condemnation successful a medium-security prison.
Novak is among less than 10 individuals prosecuted nether Russia’s 2022 instrumentality criminalizing collaboration with overseas entities, quality reports said. The quality rights enactment Memorial has recognized Novak arsenic a governmental prisoner.
Memorial noted Novak’s conflicting views connected Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine. While she had expressed enactment for pro-Russian rebels successful eastbound Ukraine since 2014 and welcomed Moscow’s full-scale penetration successful 2022, she besides lamented successful March 2022 that “peaceful Ukrainians are falling dormant and waking up to the dependable of shelling.”
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