[Russia] - Russia Upholds Prison Sentence for Nationalist Girkin

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court on Wednesday ruled to uphold the four-year prison sentence for Russian nationalist and ex-rebel commander Igor Girkin.Girkin,
a convicted war criminal in the West better known by his pseudonym Igor Strelkov, was arrested last summer after criticizing Russian
President Vladimir Putin for his handling of the war against Ukraine
pro-Russian separatist militia in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and played a key role in the annexation of Crimea
In November 2022, a Dutch court sentenced him in absentia to life in prison over the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in
eastern Ukraine, which killed all 298 people on board.Last month his wife said that her husband was seeking to clear his criminal record and
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