Kamchatka Court Jails Local Yabloko Party Leader 2 Years for Anti-War Posts

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Yabloko, to two years in prison for violating wartime censorship laws.Yefimov, 70, was arrested in May 2022, shortly after Russia launched
its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and outlawed criticism of the war
Yefimov was convicted of those charges and fined, and in June 2024, his sentence was converted to six months of supervised release
However, authorities arrested him again last summer for allegedly violating a court-imposed ban on posting online.On Tuesday, the
He was also banned from managing websites for four years, according to the state-run news agency TASS.Yefimov faces additional criminal
independent broadcaster in the Soviet era, TVK, and was awarded a regional journalism prize in 2021.Senior Yabloko members have openly
campaigned on pro-peace platforms in elections held since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but they have had little success in securing