INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court on Monday sentenced two men to prison for vandalizing a makeshift memorial dedicated to Wagner mercenaries and Russian
they were caught on camera kicking over three vases at the street memorial near Red Square.Golikov received a two-and-a-half-year sentence,
while Kozlovsky was sentenced to three years in an open prison, a facility with less severe conditions than a standard penal colony
Both men said in court that they were drunk at the time of the incident.The memorial, located on Varvarka Street, features flowers, candles,
photos of fighters and Russian flags
It was initially set up last year in memory of pro-Kremlin military blogger Maxim Fomin, also known as Vladlen Tatarsky, who was killed in a
Mediazona identified Golikov, 28, as a graduate of Moscow's Higher School of Economics and Kozlovsky, 26, as an alumnus of the Diplomatic
flowers at the memorial on the night of March 10
The prosecution estimated the damage at 55,732 rubles ($556).The defendants apologized in court and claimed to have paid for the damages,
