Court sentences ethnic Russian filmmaker to six months in prison over online petition his lawyer says was made in jest.
Latvia Jails Man for…Joke’ Petition to Merge with Russia

Court sentences ethnic Russian filmmaker to six months in prison over online petition his lawyer says was made in jest.
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