Alexander J. Motyl: Back in the USSR
Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov looks out from a defendants' cage during a hearing at a military court in the city of Rostov-on-Don on July 21, 2015.
By now you know that a Russian military kangaroo court sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov and Ukrainian civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko to, respectively, 20 and 10 years imprisonment on trumped-up charges of terrorism. Amnesty International and other human rights groups immediately responded with protests, while Amnesty’s press secretary in Ukraine compared the trial to Stalinist show trials.
