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      "title": "Russia: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years",
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      "title": "Russia: journalist Maria Ponomarenko is sentenced to six years for reporting on a Mariupol strike",
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      "ladder_note": "A journalist received a six-year sentence and a five-year professional ban under a wartime false-information law for one social media post, not a fine or license action.",
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