Russian Jailed for Placing Tiny Antiwar Signs in a Market Says She Would Do it Again NYT | Top Stories By: Neil MacFarquhar and Milana Mazaeva 7 November 2025 at 18:00 Freed in a major prisoner swap, Aleksandra Skochilenko said “the values of freedom of speech, of peace, could be more important than spending even 10 years in jail.” © Sergey Ponomarev for The New York TimesAleksandra Skochilenko, during a musical jam session she organized in Berlin in September, has just published a memoir, “My Prison Trip.”