{"id":13520,"date":"2026-08-18T03:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=13520"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:33:05","slug":"entire-nation-will-shudder-at-list-of-martyrs-russian-oppn-leader-shlosberg-jailed-for-11-years-for-war-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=13520","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Entire nation will shudder at list of martyrs&#8217;: Russian oppn leader Shlosberg jailed for 11 years for war remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-133310230,imgsize-77699,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/a-russian-court-on-monday-august-17-sentenced-prominent-opposition-politician-lev-shlosberg-to-11-years-in-prison.jpg\" alt=\"'Entire nation will shudder at list of martyrs': Russian oppn leader Shlosberg jailed for 11 years for war remarks\" title=\"Russian court sentences anti-war politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years. Photo credit: AP\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Russian court sentences anti-war politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years. Photo credit: AP\">Russian court sentences anti-war politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years. Photo credit: AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russian opposition leader Lev Shlosberg was sentenced to 11 years and one month in a penal colony on Monday for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. The case comes amid a wider Kremlin crackdown on dissent ahead of next month\u2019s parliamentary election.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Shlosberg, 63, deputy chairman of the liberal Yabloko party, was convicted by a court in Pskov of \u201cdiscrediting\u201d Russia\u2019s armed forces and spreading false information about them. He denied the charges, calling the proceedings a political trial. Yabloko is the only official political party overtly opposing the war.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>In his closing statement on Friday, Shlosberg called for an immediate ceasefire and criticised the impact of the war. <!-- -->\u201cThe lives of countless thousands of people have been cut short during this time. Sooner or later, the precise and complete death toll &#8211; with names included &#8211; will be made public, and the entire nation will shudder at this list of martyrs,\u201d he said, according to a transcript published by independent outlet Mediazona.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>\u201cToday, cemeteries in our country, including military ones, are growing far more rapidly than maternity wards, kindergartens, and schools,\u201d he said, according to a report by Reuters.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Shlosberg also said, \u201cA single person is imprisoned, yet fear seeps into the hearts of millions.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The charges stemmed from comments during a video debate in which Shlosberg described the war as a game of \u201cbloody chess\u201d and called for it to end, in a video debate. Prosecutors later added a charge of spreading fake news about the war over a repost on his Telegram channel.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>He was detained in June last year and has been in pre-trial detention since December 2025. <!-- -->It was his second trial in two years. He has also been designated a \u201cforeign agent\u201d and convicted of violating regulations linked to that designation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Separately, on Monday, Russia\u2019s Supreme Court also rejected Yabloko\u2019s appeal against its exclusion from the September 18-20 parliamentary election.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Yabloko is the only registered Russian political party to have opposed the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Its campaign slogans included, \u201cFor a ceasefire agreement, diplomacy and peace!\u201d and \u201cFor a Russia free from fear and political repression!\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Yabloko chairman Nikolai Rybakov said the party would continue its legal challenge. <!-- -->\u201cWe achieved the main thing: The whole world knows how many people in Russia want peace, want to live normally and to raise children under a peaceful sky in their country,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>On Shlosberg\u2019s sentence, Rybakov said, \u201cour feelings are with Lev and other political prisoners who have fought and are fighting for peace, for people to not die.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>Yabloko called the sentence \u201cbarbaric\u201d and said Shlosberg would appeal. Meanwhile, Amnesty International also condemned the verdict. Marie Struthers, its Eastern Europe and Central Asia director, called it \u201cblatant reprisals\u201d for exercising freedom of expression.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/rest-of-world\/entire-nation-will-shudder-at-list-of-martyrs-russian-oppn-leader-shlosberg-jailed-for-11-years-for-war-remarks\/articleshow\/133310046.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian court sentences anti-war politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years. Photo credit: AP Russian opposition leader Lev Shlosberg was sentenced to 11 years and one month in a penal colony on Monday for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. 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