On Tuesday, a military court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don sentenced a Ukrainian film director to 20 years in a maximum-security prison after convicting him of terrorism. In the hours after the verdict, small groups of people came out to protest in front of Russian consulates and embassies in several countries. In Tel Aviv, two young people held up signs marked with three words: two obscenities and a Russian word for “idiots.” They probably best expressed the sense of gaping-mouth and helpless rage felt by all the people who had been following the Sentsov case.
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