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Skochilenko, a 33-year-old artist and musician, was arrested in April 2022 after she was caught replacing price tags in a St. Petersburg grocery store with anti-war messages.
She is a pacifist who had no history of political activism before the supermarket incident, The Washington Post reported.
AdvertisementAnother of the messages read, "Weekly inflation reached a new high not seen since 1998 because of our military actions in Ukraine.
"This is just an incredible event," her mother Nadezhda Skochilenko told AFP.
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Locations:
Russia, St, Petersburg, Mariupol, Ukraine, Germany, Paris