A Russian court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced 77-year-old Crimean political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev to 18 years in prison over an alleged plot to assassinate Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian-installed proxy leader of occupied Crimea. The sentence marks the latest in a series of repressive actions by Moscow against Crimean residents since the peninsula's occupation in 2014.
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Sergey Aksyonov
Russian-installed proxy leader of occupied Crimea