Lawyer Maria Aismont - On the meaning of the defender's work in a repressive state Briefly For 13 months of hostilities in Ukraine, the Russian authorities detained almost 20 thousand people in anti -war protests. About 500 became defendants in criminal cases for “fakes” about the armed forces, their “discrediting”, arson of military enlistment offices or “calls for terrorism”. Most of the convicts on "anti -war" accusations receive real - and significant - terms.