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hansobolo t1_j63u8oc wrote

For those thinking this is the Russian government going after a antivaxer.

"The monk chastised President Vladimir Putin as a “traitor to the Motherland” who was serving a Satanic “world government,” and denounced the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, and other top clerics as “heretics” who must be “thrown out.”

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EvilPsyentist t1_j63zspq wrote

Yeah, they're not. Russian intelligence agencies have been fanning the flames of US political strife with bots since the Obama era. Honestly a large portion of Conservative media is propped up by them as they see it as causing problems over here. They're right.

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King-of-New-York OP t1_j63qy1u wrote

This dumpster-fire of a case leaves me with conflicted feelings.

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Downtown_Skill t1_j640lt3 wrote

He's crazy and delusional, that's pretty much it. The only thing got right is that putin is bad. He got the reason putin is bad wrong and everything else wrong too.

Edit: Another commenter already said it but he's being punished for criticizing the Kremlin, anything else they throw at him is just a facade.

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thieh t1_j63r7pk wrote

C'mon, are these people seriously telling everyone in the world that the basketball player got more prison time than this guy?

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TechnoArcher t1_j63t2yw wrote

Nikolai Romanov ? Nikolai II ? That's the time travel it is messing up with the head...

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SecurityPanda t1_j63ygb9 wrote

I thought Rasputin killed the Romanovs?

Turns out the Romanovs were Rasputin.

History echoes in strange ways...

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Nanocyborgasm t1_j63s7ic wrote

Stopped clocked theory strikes again!

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trunksshinohara t1_j647xtr wrote

This man about to tell his master plan to capture Anastasia.

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autotldr t1_j63ys53 wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)

> MOSCOW - A former Russian Orthodox monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and defied the Kremlin, was handed a seven-year prison sentence Friday.

> Nikolai Romanov, 67, who was known as Father Sergiy until his excommunication by the Russian Orthodox Church, urged his followers to disobey the Russian government's lockdown measures and spread conspiracy theories about a global plot to control the masses.

> Romanov served as a police officer during Soviet times, but after quitting the ranks was convicted of murder, robbery and assault and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

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