RUSSIAN authorities continue to prosecute clergy who speak out against the war in Ukraine, despite recent progress on ceasefires. Religious representatives opposing the war are being swept up by a legal system designed to crush dissent under the charge of “discrediting” the armed forces.

Daria Kozyreva used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest Russia’s war on Ukraine. A Russian court has handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Daria Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the war in Ukraine.