Russia brings jailed Ukrainian filmmaker to Moscow amid prisoner swap talks - reports
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1429276
Russia brings jailed Ukrainian filmmaker to Moscow amid prisoner swap talks - reports
- Title: Russia brings jailed Ukrainian filmmaker to Moscow amid prisoner swap talks - reports
- Date: 29th August 2019
- Summary: ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA (FILE - AUGUST 25, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF UKRAINIAN FILM DIRECTOR OLEG SENTSOV IN COURT CAGE SENTSOV AND SECOND DEFENDANT, ALEXANDER KOLCHENKO IN COURT CAGE SENTSOV
- Embargoed: 12th September 2019 09:48
- Keywords: Oleg Sentsov Russia-Ukraine Crimea annexation prisoner exchange
- Location: ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA
- City: ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
- Reuters ID: LVA001AU9T4CN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Russia has transferred jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov from a remote Arctic prison to custody in Moscow amid talks with Kiev on a possible prisoner swap, news agencies TASS and Interfax cited unnamed sources as saying on Thursday (August 29).
A native of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula who opposed the region's annexation by Russia in 2014, Sentsov says his original conviction was politically-motivated. He was jailed in 2015 for planning terrorist attacks there, a charge he denied.
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