Anti-War Cake Baker Fined, But Not Deterred

A Moscow confectioner, Anastasia Chernysheva, who was fined for making cakes decorated with anti-war slogans, plans to keep opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine despite harassment from pro-war figures and the risk of jail. If convicted a second time under the country’s wartime censorship laws, Chernysheva could be sent to prison for up to seven years. The Kremlin has rapidly expanded a crackdown on dissent since the invasion of Ukraine last year, which has not only led to the jailing of opposition politicians, activists and journalists, but also hundreds of ordinary people opposed to the war.