Putin government jails deputy leader of Russia’s Liberal opposition party

The deputy leader of Russia’s Yabloko opposition party has been sentenced to seven years in prison due to social media posts that criticized the war in Ukraine.
Maxim Kruglov, a former city councillor in Moscow, was arrested last October on allegations of disseminating “false information” regarding the Russian military.
The charges stemmed from two posts he made in April 2022; one denounced the civilian casualties of the Ukraine war, while the other criticized the actions of the Russian army in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv where numerous civilians were discovered executed following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the area.
According to Russia’s state RIA news agency, a judge at Mos...