He stayed in Russia and kept saying the war in Ukraine must end. Now opposition politician Lev Shlosberg is going to prison for more than 11 years.

Pskov City Court judge Viktoria Malyamova has sentenced Lev Shlosberg, deputy chair of Russia's Yabloko party, to eleven years and one month in a penal colony for "discrediting" the military and spreading "false information" about the armed forces. Meduza reports the false-information charge centered on a 2022 repost of a British tabloid front page, while the discrediting case stemmed from a debate recording in which Shlosberg argued for a swift end to the war in Ukraine — remarks he says were his opponent's words, not his own. Closing arguments went ahead without any of his three defense lawyers present, after the judge declined to postpone and assigned him a state-appointed attorney over his objection. Shlosberg is among the few Russian opposition figures who has continued to publicly oppose the war while remaining inside the country.

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