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A tribunal successful Russia connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) convicted a pro-war activistic and professional of President Vladimir Putin of justifying coercion and sentenced him to six years successful prison.
Sergei Udaltsov, the person of the Left Front question that opposes Mr. Putin and is affiliated with the Communist Party, was arrested past year.
According to Russian autarkic quality tract Mediazona, the charges against him stem from an nonfiction Udaltsovposted online successful enactment of different radical of Russian activists accused of forming a violent organisation. Those activists were convicted earlier this period and handed sentences ranging from 16 to 22 years successful prison.
Udaltsov has rejected the charges against him arsenic fabricated. On Thursday (December 25), helium denounced the verdict arsenic “shameful” and said helium was going connected a hunger strike, Mediazona reported.
According to the tribunal ruling, the activistic volition beryllium serving his condemnation successful a maximum information penal colony.
Udaltsov was a salient absorption fig during the 2011-12 wide protests successful Russia, triggered by reports of wide rigging of a parliamentary election. In February 2012, helium took portion successful a gathering that then-President Dmitry Medvedev held with assorted absorption figures.
Russian authorities person ramped up their crackdown connected dissent and escaped code aft the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine, relentlessly targeting rights groups, autarkic media, members of civilian nine organisations, LGBTQ+ activists and immoderate spiritual groups. Hundreds of radical person been jailed and thousands of others person fled the country.
In December 2023, a Moscow tribunal sentenced Udaltsov to 40 hours of compulsory labour for violating procedures relating to organising a rally aft helium was detained connected Red Square, wherever helium tried to unfurl a emblem with the representation of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, according to Russia's authorities quality bureau Tass.
Udaltsov was antecedently imprisoned successful 2014 and sentenced to 4½ years connected charges related to his relation successful organising a 2012 objection against Putin that turned turbulent. He was released successful 2017.
