Russia's War Against Ukraine
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The Economist: The Kremlin’s new show trials
Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov stands inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a military court in the city of Rostov-on-Don on July 21.
The latest episode in Russia's long history of judicial travesties played out this week in a stuffy courtroom in Rostov-on-Don, a provincial city near the Ukrainian border. As two defendants sat in a cage behind their lawyers, a prosecutor in dark glasses described them as bloodthirsty Ukrainian radicals who ran a terrorist cell in Crimea in early 2014. They had allegedly plotted to blow up a statue of Lenin.
