reported<\/a> by SOTAvision, citing a letter from fellow political prisoner Aleksandr Nozdrinov.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAccording to Aleksandr Nozdrinov, Vladimir Yarotsky repeatedly complained of pressure from the colony\u2019s administration. He was allegedly forced to carry out night-time labour despite clear medical contraindications. Requests to ease his working conditions were met, he said, with further pressure rather than relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In May 2025, Vladimir Yarotsky was sentenced to five and a half years in a penal colony. He was convicted of \u2018desecrating a symbol of Russia\u2019s military glory\u2019 (Part 4, Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and of spreading \u2018false information\u2019 about the Russian Armed Forces motivated by hatred (Paragraph \u2018d\u2019, Part 2, Article 207.3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The desecration charge stemmed from an image depicting a street artist sketching Vladimir Putin with a St George\u2019s ribbon tied around his neck. On the canvas, however, the drawing appeared as a penis adorned with the same ribbon. The caption read: \u2018Intelligent people see that Putin is burying Russia alive, while fools believe he is saving it\u2026\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn December 2023, Vladimir Yarotsky had already been sentenced to eighteen months\u2019 imprisonment over this image, but the case was later returned for retrial. During the renewed proceedings, an additional charge of spreading \u2018false information\u2019 was introduced. The court ruled that he had published \u2018unreliable and unsubstantiated information\u2019<\/em> about the number of Russian servicemen killed or missing in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSeparately, in May 2024, the artist was fined 350,000 roubles for \u2018incitement to terrorism\u2019 (Part 2, Article 205.2), over a post calling for an assassination attempt on President Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-58561","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","regions-krasnodar-krai","news-type-nashi-novosti-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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