In Russia, a broken family and increasingly heavy anti-war verdicts

Until then tragic, the Alexei Moskalev affair took a frankly spectacular turn, on Tuesday March 28, with the escape of this man whom the authorities have been harassing since his 13-year-old daughter drew against the war at school. On Tuesday, Alexei Moskalev, 54, was on trial for his own social media posts. He was found guilty by a court in the Tula region, south of Moscow, of having “discredited” the Russian armed forces, and was sentenced to 2 years in prison. In question, among other things, a caricature of Vladimir Putin and an anti-war post proclaiming: “Russian army. The rapists are among us.”