Bags packed: Russian activist prepares for jail

Anastasia Shevchenko has spent the past week packing a bag for prison and recording voice messages for her two children to listen to when she's gone. The opposition activist was placed under house arrest over two years ago, accused of links to a pro-democracy group based in the UK and banned in Russia under a controversial 2015 law on "undesirable organisations".

A judge in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don will rule on Thursday whether to sentence the single mother to five years behind bars, as the prosecutor has requested.