On May 5, 2016, Zavolzhskiy district court in the Russian city of Tver sentenced a local citizen Andrey Bubeyev for reposting in Vkontakte social network an article claiming “Crimea is Ukraine” to two years three months in a penal colony.
Persecution was launched after the man reposted an article titled Crimea is Ukraine” originally posted by a publicist Boris Stomakhin and an image on the same subject on his profile page on VKontakte.
Here are those 2 posts for which Bubeyev was sentenced to 2 years in jail:
1) http://zapretno.info/wp-content/uploa…
2) https://translate.google.com/translat…
During the debate, the public prosecutor asked to sentence Bubeyev to three and a half years in prison. Bubeyev claims that he is being persecuted for his beliefs, pleading not guilty.
