INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court has sentenced exiled Russian-Canadian activist Pyotr Verzilov to more than eight years of prison in absentia for spreading
sentence in absentia as well as a four-year ban on using the internet.Prosecutors had asked the court to sentence Verzilov to nine years in
publisher of Mediazona until October, when he announced hisresignation after facing backlash over an interview with popular YouTube
personality Yury Dud in which he revealed that he serves as an intelligence officer for the Ukrainian military.He is also a member of the
anti-Kremlin activist group Pussy Riot.In 2021, Russian authorities placed Verzilov, Mediazona and its editor-in-chief Sergei Smirnov on
