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Russian Journalist Gets Six Years for Accusing Russia of Ukraine Theater Bombing
Reuters by way of Voice of America ^ | February 15, 2023 | Reuters

Posted on 02/15/2023 12:56:59 PM PST by familyop

A Russian journalist was sentenced to six years in a penal colony on Wednesday for accusing the Russian air force of bombing a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol last April where women and children were sheltering.

The Lenin district court in the Siberian city of Barnaul also banned Maria Ponоmarenko from working as a journalist for five years, according to a court service statement. State prosecutors had asked for a nine-year sentence.

(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidensrinolemmings; bidenteamnuuz; itistolaugh; mariaponmarenko; notourwar; rooters; thatsashame
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1 posted on 02/15/2023 12:56:59 PM PST by familyop
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To: familyop

At least she wasn’t murdered like so many other Russian journalists. The West is watching now, and Putin knows it.


2 posted on 02/15/2023 1:00:55 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: familyop

“Real Americans demand this form of justice for their own lying pieces of journalistic Mitt.”


3 posted on 02/15/2023 1:01:43 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: familyop
The West is watching now, and Putin knows it.

Putin doesn't give a rip about what the Left West thinks, after observing the pink Commie petunias overrun the schools and US armed forces.

It was hilarious watching The Klown of Kabul run his tranny mouth about Russia the other day.


4 posted on 02/15/2023 1:05:16 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: familyop

Just wait for the Putin bootlickers to come defend this. What are they going to do with themselves after Putin loses?


5 posted on 02/15/2023 1:06:00 PM PST by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: familyop

Read the article twice and couldn’t find reference to the crime with which she was charged.

I know the Russians imprison domestic “enemies” with regularity, but surely they at least assign a bogus charge.


6 posted on 02/15/2023 1:07:41 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: The Old Hoosier
It's fascinating watching you defend the lying scum that are our Western "journalists".

Maybe if we had something like this in the US, it would get some of their minds right.

It's hard to say with American Media sociopaths, though...

7 posted on 02/15/2023 1:09:06 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

Publishing disinformation or outright Kiev propo was her “ crime”

Doesn’t sound like she interviewed a lot of the Mariupol
residents who were there and had a far different story


8 posted on 02/15/2023 1:10:56 PM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: familyop

If he had been a Ukrainian blaming Ukraine then Zelensky would have had him executed.


9 posted on 02/15/2023 1:13:29 PM PST by Revel
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To: ConservativeWarrior
Ponomarenko was charged under a Russian law that appeared on the books shortly after the Feb. 24, 2022, when the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. The law forbids the ‘dissemination of false information about the Russian Armed Forces.” All signs seem to indicate that prosecutors do not intend to be lenient with Ponomarenko.
10 posted on 02/15/2023 1:15:34 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Revel

“Her” not “him”. Your level of reading comprehension maybe explains why you are so easily suckered in by FSB propaganda.


11 posted on 02/15/2023 1:16:13 PM PST by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: familyop

The theater was clearly marked “дети” (”children”) and the russians went ahead and bombed it anyway, killing hundreds of kids and women. Syrians with experience in russian tactics from Aleppo taught the Ukrainians to never ever mark a hospital, school or civilian shelter as such - russians target them specifically, to inflict maximum terror.


12 posted on 02/15/2023 1:19:06 PM PST by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: familyop

Way to win hearts & minds, Pootie Poot.

BTW, the WSJ recently estimated 97% of Russia’s military is now engaged in Ukraine. And he’s still not making great progress. Even if that number is a joke it’s not looking real great for the invaders.


13 posted on 02/15/2023 1:19:23 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: lump in the melting pot; Revel

Did you assume the generic Ulrainian “journalist’s” gender, LITPT?


14 posted on 02/15/2023 1:23:02 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: familyop

VOA = CIA. Who knows if this is even remotely true?


15 posted on 02/15/2023 1:24:19 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: kiryandil

And why would even matter? What are you... A racist! /sarc


16 posted on 02/15/2023 1:44:56 PM PST by Revel
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To: kiryandil

Thank you for that information.

Jane Fonda should be quaking in her crocs.


17 posted on 02/15/2023 1:54:40 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: kiryandil
Looks like your pal Pooptin has a general


18 posted on 02/15/2023 1:56:55 PM PST by Cronos
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19 posted on 02/15/2023 2:03:31 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Cronos

Stay in your lane, timebot.


20 posted on 02/15/2023 2:04:19 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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