Two Russian men have been jailed for reciting anti-war poems at a public reading in central Moscow. Artyom Kamardin, 33, and Yegor Shtovba, 23, were found guilty of “inciting hatred” against ...
Russian poet Artyom Kamardin, 34, was jailed for seven years for reciting anti-war poetry. Fellow poet Yegor Shtovba, 23, was sentenced to five a half year for attending the public reading ...
The wife of a Russian poet jailed for seven years for reciting anti-war verses said she was afraid he could be killed in prison after he was sexually assaulted with a dumbbell during his arrest.
Artyom Kamardin was arrested in September 2022 after reciting -- on a Moscow square where dissidents have been gathering since the late 1950s -- a poem that fiercely criticised Russia's war ...