"A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly 'discrediting' the Russian army, including by gluing a quotation on a statue of a Ukrainian poet. ... Kozyreva was arrested on February 24, 2024, after she glued a verse by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko onto his monument in St Petersburg... The verse from Shevchenko’s My Testament read, 'Oh bury me, then rise ye up / And break your heavy chains / And water with the tyrants’ blood / The freedom you have gained'..."
— Russia sentences 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after poetic anti-war protest, Mariya Knight and Caitlin Danaher, CNN, April 18, 2025
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