Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin has been charged with spreading fake news about the Russian army, on the basis of a YouTube stream in which he discussed the violent deaths of scores of people in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Russia's Prosecutor's Office has demanded a sentence of nine years in a penal colony.

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