Canada’s immigration minister says a Russian antiwar activist will be able to get Canadian citizenship after all despite a conviction in Russia that got her pulled from a previous ceremony.
Maria Kartasheva, 30, has lived in Ottawa since 2019. She has been convicted under a Russian law passed shortly after the invasion of Ukraine which bars “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.”
Her convictions stem from two blog entries from March 2022, when she posted photos and wrote in Russian expressing horror at the Bucha massacre. Russia’s foreign minister has rejected allegations of atrocities
