Authorities have detained nearly 20,000 people for anti-war activity and opened over 800 criminal cases against anti-war dissidents, according to the OVD-Info rights group.
Skochilenko replaced price tags in a supermarket in her native St Petersburg on March 31 2022 with five small pieces of paper urging an end to the war.
"Even you, your honour (the judge), even you, the state prosecutor, you also don’t want people to die prematurely, for young soldiers to lie in the fields, for civilians to die."
Copies of the imitation price tags produced by Skochilenko are on display on a website maintained by her supporters.
Another alleges Russia was sending conscripts to fight in Ukraine, which Russia has also denied.
Persons:
Alexandra, Sasha, Skochilenko, Alexandra Skochilenko, Moscow's, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Gladyshev, Putin, Andrew Osborn, Mark Trevelyan, Barbara Lewis
Organizations:
Authorities, Moscow, Wednesday, Amnesty, NATO, Thomson
Locations:
Ukraine, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Russian, St Petersburg, Mariupol, Moscow