MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for “terrorist attacks” in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in April 2014, RIA news agency said.The Crimea-born Sentsov pleaded not guilty and denounced the trial as politically driven, amid high tensions between Russia and the West over Moscow’s role in the crisis in Ukraine.The military court in Russia’s south-western city of Rostov on Don sentenced the second defendant in the case, Alexander Kolchenko, to 10 years in prison. State prosecutors have …read more
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