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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 1,300 hours GMT on Monday the 17th of April, these are our main stories.

A Russian dissident is jailed for 25 years after criticizing the war in Ukraine.

This regime is not negotiable, you never have to trust them and you definitely never should say I'm a tired to support Ukraine.

We get reaction from the widow of Alexander Litvenenko, the Russian whistleblower, who was murdered in London in 2006.

We go to Myanmar in the grip of a devastating civil war.

The people of Myanmar ask me regularly, why is it that the world has taken such a coordinated response to the crisis in Ukraine but not in Myanmar?

Plus, is snoring bad for your health?

And the jazz pianist Amar Jamal, whose sparse playing style influenced generations of musicians, has died at the age of 92.

There was an inevitability about a Russian court's judgment today in the case of Vladimir Karamertsa, the opposition activist whose joint Russian British citizenship has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for treason and other charges linked to his criticism of the war in Ukraine.

His wife Yavgyevna predicted he would get the maximum sentence.

He hate him so much and there's so much afraid of him out there, you know, running free that they need to lock him up for a quarter of a century.

Last week Vladimir Karamertsa told the court in Moscow he was proud of everything he'd said.

The former journalist and politician is the latest of President Putin's opponents to have been arrested or forced to flee the country.

The Moscow judge said he would serve his sentence in a penal colony.

The former Moscow pistol police were trying to keep the security of the city centre that will go on for a second, since he's been here after the murder.

He was also fined 400,000 rubles. That's just under $5,000.

There's been widespread condemnation of the sentencing. I asked BBC Russian editor Steve Rosenberg whether this would make any difference.

I don't think so. No, it won't affect the verdict. It won't affect the appeal. Russia is used to hearing condemnation.

Regarding its justice system and it will brush that all the side.

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