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Russian feminist artist on trial for alleged 'pornography'

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A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a feminist activist and artist charged with disseminating pornography after she shared drawings of female bodies online.The case has sparked both domestic and international criticism, just eight months after President Vladimir Putin signed constitutional amendments that outlawed same-sex marriage and tasked the government with “preserving traditional family values.”Yulia Tsvetkova, 27, from the far-eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, faces up to six years in prison after posting stylised drawings of vaginas on the popular social network platform VKontakte.The first hearing comes a year and a half after Tsvetkova was first detained.Tsvetkova's lawyer, Irina Ruchko, told reporters after the.

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