In the 1920s, Soviet authorities helped plan a city in deepest Siberia where Christians could worship freely (and be watched closely) under the light of a giant electric "sun."
The Tomsk regional court in Siberia said on July 11 that 21-year-old artist Tatyana Laletina had been handed a nine-year prison term two weeks earlier for wiring money to a Ukrainian fund in the wake of Russia's unprovoked invasion of its neighbor.