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A Russian artist known for his radical politically-charged performances has been convicted of vandalism in a pro-Ukraine protest and sentenced to 16 months in prison. The court, however, lifted the punishment for Pyotr Pavlensky in Thursday’s ruling on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired for his pro-Ukraine protest in 2014.
Pavlensky and a number of other activists had waved Ukrainian flags, burned tires and banged metal sheets with sticks near a St Petersburg cathedral on Feb. 23, 2014, in imitation of the Kiev mass street protests that had ousted Ukraine’s pro-Russia president two days before.