Ukrainian film director Sentsov begins to judge in Russia - ForumDaily
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Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov begins to judge in Russia

In Rostov-on-Don, the trial of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov began, who in Russia is accused of organizing a terrorist group and preparing terrorist acts in the Crimea.

Sentsov faces life imprisonment, and he himself is confident that the court will “give” him twenty years - that’s exactly how long, according to him, the Russian special services “promised” him when he was arrested on May 10, 2014.

Oleg Sentsov categorically rejects the charges against him and believes that he is being convicted for participating in the Maidan and an active position on upholding Ukrainian statehood in the Crimea.

He has a wife and two teenage children on the peninsula, one of whom has autism.

Dozens of world famous cinematographers (including even close to the Kremlin Nikita Mikhalkov) and thousands of public figures from different countries stand up for Sentsov. Ukraine announced Sentsov to political prisoners and demanded his immediate release.

However, the upcoming process in the North Caucasus District Military Court looks like a mere formality.

Russian investigators managed to obtain confessions from two defendants in the case - Gennady Afanasyev and Alexey Chirniy - who identified themselves as accomplices in the criminal conspiracy along with Sentsov.

True, the former lawyer Chirniya Ilya Novikov is sure that his client has incriminated himself for the sake of a deal with the investigation.

Novikov was removed from participation in the trial because of his position, the court found the guilt of Afanasyev and Chirniy proven, they received seven years in prison - and now the Rostov court can only listen to their testimony against Sentsov and determine the degree of punishment for the director.

On Monday, on the eve of the start of the trial of Oleg Sentsov, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in a conversation with international partners of the so-called “Normandy format”, once again stated that he demands Russia to speed up, without any additional conditions, the release of illegally detained Ukrainian citizens, including — Oleg Sentsov and Nadezhda Savchenko, a Ukrainian pilot accused of murdering journalists.

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