Russia has jailed a man for claiming to be the Soviet president. The court has found Sergey Taraskin guilty of establishing a public association [deemed extremist] and sentenced him to eight years in a penal colony.
A Moscow court sentenced a self-proclaimed acting president of the Soviet Union to eight years in a prison colony on Wednesday for forming an extremist group. The convicted criminal, a former dentist, has advocated for breaking Russian laws and re-establishing the Soviet KGB....
