ROSTOV-ON-DON: A Ukrainian film director went on trial on terror charges in southern Russia on Tuesday, after Moscow held him for more than a year in a case decried by Kiev, rights groups and prominent film directors across the globe.
Oleg Sentsov flicked a victory sign at several dozen supporters and reporters as he filed into the defendant cage in a military courtroom in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
The pro-Kiev film maker — along with a second defendant Alexander Kolchenko — is accused of plotting and carrying out “terrorist attacks” on the Crimea peninsula after the region was seized from Ukraine by …read more
Source: theSun