Russian artist who staged anti-war supermarket protest faces eight years in jail

By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -A female Russian artist who staged a protest against Moscow's war in Ukraine by replacing supermarket price tags with trenchant calls to stop the conflict is facing eight years in a penal colony after a court hearing on Wednesday. Alexandra Skochilenko, 33, an artist and musician known to her friends as "Sasha", carried out the protest on March 31 2022, replacing price tags in a supermarket in St Petersburg, Russia's second city, with five little pieces of paper urging an end to what Moscow calls a "special military operation". Alexander Gladyshev, a state prosecuto...