Name: Igor Serebryany: Eighteen years: Russian court gives record-long terms for minor offences by FairPlanet
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Description: Thousands of academicians, students, teachers, performers, doctors, and even shopkeepers voiced their concerns this week over the destiny of seven activists sentenced to the lengthy prison terms in the central Russia's city of Penza.

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Thousands of academicians, students, teachers, performers, doctors, and even shopkeepers voiced their concerns this week over the destiny of seven activists sentenced to the lengthy prison terms in the central Russia's city of Penza.

Igor Serebryany: Eighteen years: Russian court gives record-long terms for minor offences

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