Halya Coynash: Ukrainian blogger gets long sentence for expressing contentious views
Grad rocket launchers of pro-Russian separatists of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ride during the Victory Day parade in Donetsk on May 9.
Ruslan Kotsaba, a controversial Ivano-Frankivsk journalist and blogger, has been sentenced to three and a half years’ imprisonment. The Ivano-Frankivsk City Court found the journalist, who has been in detention for 14 months guilty of obstructing the legitimate activities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over a video in which he expressed his negative attitude to mobilization.
