Russian woman convicted for insulting Putin's parents' grave.

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Russian woman convicted for insulting Putin's parents' grave.
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A Russian court has given a two-year suspended sentence to a woman who left a note on the grave of President Vladimir Putin's parents, calling them "freaks and killers." The woman was found guilty of desecrating burial places motivated by political hatred. The Russian government has been cracking down on dissent since sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022. In other developments, a Russian military court sentenced a history teacher to five and a half years in prison for comments he made about last year's explosion of the Kerch bridge, and jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny was returned to solitary confinement after his release.

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