Canada backtracks on citizenship denial for Russian antiwar activist
Source: Radio Canada International
Canada backtracks on citizenship denial for Russian antiwar activist
RCI
Posted: 3:19 PM
Blogger Maria Kartasheva was convicted of misinformation in Russia
Canada's immigration minister says a Russian antiwar activist will be granted Canadian citizenship after all (new window) despite a conviction in Russia that got her pulled from a previous ceremony.
Maria Kartasheva, 30, has lived in Ottawa since 2019.
She was convicted under a Russian law passed shortly after the full-scale invasion in of Ukraine in February 2022. The law prohibits public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Her convictions stem from two blog entries from March 2022, when she posted photos and wrote in Russian expressing her horror at the Bucha massacre (new window). Russia's foreign minister has rejected allegations of atrocities in Bucha.
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