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Russian ornithologist sentenced to prison over $27 anticorruption donation

Rozenfeld's employer

Moscow's Gagarinsky District Court sentenced Sofya Rozenfeld, a 50-year-old ornithologist and leading Arctic waterfowl specialist, to three and a half years in a penal colony. Her crime: two donations of 1,000 rubles each, about $27 total, to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Updated Oct 14