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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Russia jails ultra-nationalist Putin critic and woman convicted of bomb attack

Igor Girkin and Darya Trepova in court
Igor Girkin and Darya Trepova in court on Thursday. Composite: EPA/Reuters

Russian courts have jailed a prominent ultra-nationalist critic of Vladimir Putin and, separately, a woman convicted over a blast that killed a pro-war blogger.

In Moscow, a court sentenced Igor Girkin, a former battlefield commander of Russian proxy forces in east Ukraine who was convicted by a Dutch court over the shooting down of flight MH17, to four years in jail on extremism charges prompted by his criticism of the Russian war effort in Ukraine.

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