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A court in Yaroslavl, Russia, sentenced 48-year-old Nikolai Shcherbakov to 14 years in a maximum-security penal colony on treason charges after he was accused of sending photographs of soldiers' graves to Ukrainian intelligence. Authorities described the case as Russia's first known treason conviction of this specific kind, reflecting the broader wartime crackdown on perceived espionage and dissent. The case adds to a growing pattern of harsh sentences handed down by Russian courts against citizens accused of aiding Ukraine, part of a wider campaign of surveillance and prosecution targeting alleged informants and critics of the war amid heightened domestic security measures.