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Igor Girkin, who helped shoot down MH17, is jailed in Russia

Igor Strelkov (Girkin), a former FSB officer and leader of the DPR [the Donetsk People's Republic, a self-proclaimed and non-recognised state formation in Donetsk Oblast - ed.], has been sentenced to four years in a general-regime penal colony by the Moscow City Court.

Igor Girkin escaped justice for downing flight MH17 but goes to jail after criticising Russia's leader.

Igor Girkin escaped justice for downing flight MH17 but goes to jail after criticising Russia's leader.

 

Igor Girkin escaped justice for downing flight MH17 but goes to jail after criticising Russia's leader.

It comes as Igor Girkin, a Russian pro-war ultranationalist, is sentenced to four years after claiming the war in Ukraine had not gone far enough

With U.S. aid running dry and Europe unable to meet commitments, Ukraine is finding itself badly outgunned.

For the Kremlin, Russian nationalists, as well as anti-systemic communists, represent a far greater threat than pro-Western liberals. Ahead of the presidential election, scheduled for March 17, Russian authorities will undoubtedly intensify repression against anyone who criticizes the way the country’s leadership is conducting the so-called special military operation in Ukraine. After Russia launched the

A Russian state prosecutor asked a Moscow court on Thursday to jail prominent nationalist Igor Girkin, who accuses President Vladimir Putin and the army top brass of not pursuing the Ukraine war effectively enough, for nearly five years. State prosecutors accuse Girkin, who is regarded in the West as a war criminal over the 2014…