Aleksandra Skochilenko was also banned for three years from maintaining a presence on social-media sites or posting on the internet. Photo: Peter Kovalev/Zuma PressA Russian artist accused of replacing price tags in a supermarket with antiwar messaging was sentenced to seven years in prison, in the latest example of the Kremlin’s efforts to crush everyday opposition to its war on Ukraine. A court in Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg Thursday found Aleksandra Skochilenko , a 33-year-old artist and musician, guilty of knowingly spreading false information about the Russian military and ordered that she serve her term in a penal colony, according to information published by the Vasileostrovsky District Court. She was also banned for three years from maintaining a presence on social-media sites or posting on the internet, the court said.

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Persons: Aleksandra Skochilenko, Peter Kovalev Organizations: Press Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Russia’s, St, Petersburg, Vasileostrovsky