A Russian military court on Monday convicted a popular Ukrainian YouTube blogger and journalist in absentia for making public calls to kill President Vladimir Putin.A Moscow military court sentenced Dmitry Gordon to 14 years imprisonment, the TASS news agency reported.Russia has been convicting its opponents in absentia as part of a crackdown since the start of the Ukraine offensive.Gordon, 56, is a household name in Ukraine with millions of followers on social media.A poll in August 2023 placed him seventh among Ukrainians' most viewed "experts" commenting on YouTube.Starting as a newspaper journalist, he founded a Russian-language weekly newspaper called "Gordon's Boulevard" and hosted a television show called "Gordon's Guests," also in Russian.He then launched an online news site called Gordon and two YouTube channels.Gordon would often appear as a commentator on Russian television talk shows, saying on Olga Skabeyeva's 60 Minutes show in 2019 that "I would call Putin one word: a criminal."He was critical of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky up to Russia's offensive.