New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Lev Shlosberg stayed when almost everyone else left. Most Russian politicians and journalists who opposed the Ukraine conflict had crossed the border by the end of 2022. Shlosberg did not. He remained in Pskov, kept his position as deputy chair of the Yabloko party, gave interviews, and continued arguing - publicly, inside Russia - that the war had to stop. On Monday, a court sentenced him to 11 years and one month in a penal colony for doing so.

two offenses codified in Russian law after the military operation in Ukraine began in February 2022. Shlosberg's sentence combined that conviction with a previous November 2025 penalty of 420 hours of community service for violating Russia's "foreign agent" obligations.

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