# Asylum-seeking Russian swimmer sentenced to six years in penal colony

https://mins.news/en/item/90497

- euronews, 2026-10-07 22:45 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/08/russian-man-who-swam-from-kaliningrad-to-lithuania-in-asylum-attempt-sentenced-to-six-year

> Russia has sentenced the 68-year-old to six years in a strict-regime penal colony for “publicly justifying terrorism.” In his bid for asylum, he swam from the Kaliningrad exclave across the Nemunas River into Lithuania.

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