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‘It is not possible to stay quiet’: Putin’s first victim of ‘fake news’ law speaks out

Socialite and food blogger Veronika Belotserkovskaya says she is both amused and shocked to be charged

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One of the first three people to face a criminal case under Russia’s “fake news” law has said the charges mean she has been “officially declared a decent person”.

“To find out I was the first one to be charged was both amusing and shocking. I joked that I was officially declared a decent person,” said Veronika Belotserkovskaya, a food entrepreneur and blogger with almost 1 million Instagram followers. She was one of three Russians charged under the new law carrying a sentence of up to 15 years in prison, and that marked an escalation in Russia’s crackdown on anti-war dissent.

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