The newly crowned winner of the Miss Crimea beauty pageant has been fined by Russian authorities for singing a patriotic Ukrainian song. Olga Valeyeva and a friend were charged with “discrediting” the ...

Details: The Russian-controlled Leninsky District Court of Crimea fined Lenur Khalilov and Dmytro Kamyshantsev 40,000 roubles (about US$4,000) each under the article on discrediting the Russian army.

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Russian authorities have fined the winner of this year’s Miss Crimea beauty pageant, Olga Valeyeva, after video emerged of her singing a patriotic Ukrainian song, Russia’s state-run TASS news agency ...