The Kremlin passed a law last year that meant it could jail journalists and publishers who spread what it deems to be misinformation about the military and the war in Ukraine
The legislation has been used to prosecute individuals who veer away from the government's official line that it is"a special military operation".
He called for peace, hitting out at the"suffering under dictatorship", and said today was a"dark moment of our history but the darkest moment is always the first sunrise". Mr Ivanov, a former student from Lomonosov Moscow State University, will also be unable to have any presence on the internet for four years after his release.
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