Russia: Bakhmina’s Sentence “Last Drop” · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Alex(ei) of The Russian Dilettante's Weblog thinks the seven-year sentence for former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina, mother of two, is “the last drop”: “It is now painfully clear that Putin's junta has no problem imprisoning obviously innocent, essentially common people (as opposed to oligarchs) — even women, even mothers — on obviously trumped-up charges, imputing guilt by association.”