Russia puts Ukraine film director on trial for 'terror'

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Source: AFP / Yahoo

Rostov-on-Don (Russia) (AFP) - A Ukrainian film director went on trial on terror charges in southern Russia on Tuesday after Moscow held him for more than a year in a case decried by Kiev, rights groups and prominent film directors across the globe.

Oleg Sentsov flicked a victory sign at several dozen supporters and reporters as he filed into the defendant's cage in a military courtroom in the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don for the start of the hearing.

The pro-Kiev filmmaker -- along with co-defendant Alexander Kolchenko -- is accused of plotting and carrying out "terrorist attacks" on the Crimea peninsula after the region was seized from Ukraine by Russia in March 2014.

"I don't consider this court a court at all, so you can consider whatever you want," Sentsov said in court.

Both men deny the charges against them in a case that has sparked international condemnation from rights groups and concern from award-winning directors from around the globe.

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1. And more silence coming from the Putinistas here.

[NuclearDem]

2. Off getting the talking points. Predicting, though:

1) CIA planted him to undermine Russia in Crimea.

2) Ukraine planted him to undermine Russia in Crimea.

3) Sentsov's cousin's nephew's father's brother's former roommate is a Neo-Nazi, and Russia is the anti-fascist beacon of the world.

4) Look! Nazis in Kiev! Nazis under your bed!

5) Why can't you people just be grateful for Russia ensuring the Iran deal?

6) Sentsov is somehow responsible for MH17.

7) Communist blacklisting in Hollywood during the Red Scare, so you can't say anything anyway.

8) Guantanamo, so you can't say anything anyway.

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3. I wonder what the Robert Parry-quoting Putinistas will say about this? nt