By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – After almost eight hours sitting in a police station and court, Vera Kotova became one of the first people to be judged and fined just under $240 under a new Russian law to punish anyone deemed to have discredited the armed forces. Her crime was writing “No to war” accompanied by a heart in the snow at the foot of a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in a square in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk during a sparsely attended protest rally. Her punishment, decided by the central district court of Krasnoyarsk, was the 30,000 rouble fine, which she …