SIMFEROPOL - A court in the Crimean capital has sentenced a Maidan activist to four years and two months in jail over an attack on a security troop 15 months ago, at the height of the unrest that ultimately unseated Ukraine's president.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Radio Free Europe/radio Liberty: Crimean court jails Maidan activist
A Russian flag flies in the courtyard of the parliament building in Simferopol, Crimea, on March 18, 2014, while workers dismantled the inscription reading "The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea" in Crimean Tatar language. The Kremlin said on March 18, 2014 that it now considers Crimea part of Russia following the signing of a treaty, despite strong objections from the international community which insists the Black Sea peninsula is Ukrainian territory. AFP PHOTO/ VASILY MAXIMOVnn
