Russian woman convicted for leaving note on Putin's parents' grave during dissent crackdown.
A Russian court has given a two-year suspended sentence to Irina Tsybaneva, a St. Petersburg woman who left a note on the grave of President Vladimir Putin’s parents that said they had “raised a freak and a killer.” Tsybaneva was found guilty of desecrating burial places motivated by political hatred. Since Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the government has waged a crackdown on dissent unseen since the Soviet era.