Dmitry Shipilov in Kyiv, Ukraine in August 2015. Image from Facebook.
Dmitry Shipilov, a Russian journalist and blogger who was previously charged with insulting the governor of Siberia’s Kemerovo region in posts on his blog, has been granted political asylum in Ukraine.
Shipilov, who first applied for Ukrainian asylum in February 2015, when crossing the border between Belarus and Ukraine, reported the news on his Facebook page.
And full stop. The ten-month epic journey is finally over, thank you, everyone, time to break up this party.
The blogger, himself from Kemerovo, was first charged with “insulting a state official in public” in 2012 …read more
Source: Global Voices
