Halya Coynash: Poet labeled ‘terrorist,’ flung off Wikipedia for verse in support of Ukraine
Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech as he attends a ceremony of receiving diplomatic credentials from foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 28, 2015.
Alexander Byvshev, the Russian poet dismissed from his teaching job and on trial for a poem against Russia’s annexation of Crimea, has now been added to Russia’s List of Terrorists and Extremists. Russian Wikipedia has also demonstrated the same contempt for the presumption of innocence and deleted their entry on the poet.
