Fines, fear, self-censorship: Russia's new Ukraine law casts chill

After almost eight hours sitting in a police station and court, Vera Kotova became one of the first people to be judged and fined just under US$240 under a new Russian law to punish anyone deemed to have discredited the armed forces.

Her crime was writing "No to war" accompanied by a heart in the snow at the foot of a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin...