INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian court on Tuesday jailed a woman for more than five years for criticizing the military on social media, allegedly after her
neighbor denounced her.Anna Aleksandrova, a 47-year-old hairdresser, was arrested in November 2023 over pseudonymous posts she made on
VKontakte, Russia's largest social network.Prosecutors accused her of sharing information about how to avoid being mobilized, and of being
service said on Telegram.Aleksandrova pleaded not guilty at the trial, saying she was set up by a neighbor with whom she was embroiled in a
land dispute, according to independent news outlet Mediazona.Aleksandrova, a mother of two, has been in pre-trial detention for over a
year.She told the Current Time news outlet that investigators broke down the front door of her apartment during her arrest, and that one of
incarceration.Since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has waged an unprecedented crackdown on dissent that rights groups
have likened to Soviet-era mass repression.
