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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt Mathers

Russian woman charged for ‘desecrating’ Putin grave

AP

A Russian woman who left a note on President Putin’s parents’ grave saying they had raised a “monster and murderer” has been handed a two-year suspended sentence.

Irina Tsybaneva, a 60-year-old retiree from St Petersburg, was found guilty of desecrating the Putin family plot in October last year.

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