In 2023, Sasha Skochilenko, a 33-year-old artist, poet, and musician, was charged with the crime of disseminating “knowingly false information” about the actions of the Russian armed forces and sentenced to seven years in prison. Nearly two years earlier, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she had replaced the price tags in a St. Petersburg supermarket with various antiwar messages: “The Russian Army bombed an art school in Mariupol where about 400 people were seeking shelter,” a