Jailed for 20 years for activities in Crimea shortly after Putin annexed the peninsula, Sentsov urges defiance and wants to be a ‘nail in the coffin of a tyrant’The Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year sentence in Russia, has smuggled a defiant letter from his jail in deepest Siberia, comparing himself to a “nail that will not bend”.Sentsov, a film-maker and pro-Ukrainian activist, was arrested in Crimea in May 2014 soon after president Vladimir Putin annexed the peninsula. He had been helping to deliver food to Ukrainian soldiers who had been marooned at their bases following …read more
Source: The Guardian
