This dumpster-fire of a case leaves me with conflicted feelings.

C'mon, are these people seriously telling everyone in the world that the basketball player got more prison time than this guy?

Internal vs external politics.

I call bull shit

Stopped clocked theory strikes again!

Yup. This guy can't be traded against an arms dealer

Nikolai Romanov ? Nikolai II ? That's the time travel it is messing up with the head...

Ah he looks abit like Rasputin

So this is why..."God damn it we said one at a time..."

For those thinking this is the Russian government going after a antivaxer.

"The monk chastised President Vladimir Putin as a “traitor to the Motherland” who was serving a Satanic “world government,” and denounced the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, and other top clerics as “heretics” who must be “thrown out.”

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What a headline

Jeff bridges, is that you?

I thought Rasputin killed the Romanovs?

Turns out the Romanovs were Rasputin.

History echoes in strange ways...

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)

> MOSCOW - A former Russian Orthodox monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and defied the Kremlin, was handed a seven-year prison sentence Friday.

> Nikolai Romanov, 67, who was known as Father Sergiy until his excommunication by the Russian Orthodox Church, urged his followers to disobey the Russian government's lockdown measures and spread conspiracy theories about a global plot to control the masses.

> Romanov served as a police officer during Soviet times, but after quitting the ranks was convicted of murder, robbery and assault and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

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Yeah, they're not. Russian intelligence agencies have been fanning the flames of US political strife with bots since the Obama era. Honestly a large portion of Conservative media is propped up by them as they see it as causing problems over here. They're right.

He's crazy and delusional, that's pretty much it. The only thing got right is that putin is bad. He got the reason putin is bad wrong and everything else wrong too.

Edit: Another commenter already said it but he's being punished for criticizing the Kremlin, anything else they throw at him is just a facade.

This man about to tell his master plan to capture Anastasia.

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Orthodox Priesr != Monk

I am glad someone else saw that. My first thought.