Aug 25, 2015
A Russian court has sentenced Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov to 20 years harsh regime prison camp, and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko to 10 years.
The conviction and the sentences were anticipated, despite the lack of any crime to warrant them. The two men responded with the same courage and independence that they have demonstrated from the outset: by standing arm in arm and singing lines from Ukraine’s national anthem:
“We will lay down our body and our soul for our freedom”.
I love the way, they’re just smiling, singing the anthem. I sang along with them:) Putin’s KGB/Gulag-regime won’t last that long in Russia. They both and our pilot Savchenko will be released much sooner.
