The Trial The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

August 2015 a courtroom in RostovonDon A man is peering through the bars of his cage his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit 20 years imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism The man is Oleg Sentsov a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine He is charged with leading an antiRussian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges power lines and a monument of Lenin Sentsov defends himself courageously and without flinching He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves