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Yuri Samsonov was sentenced to six years in prison for public justification of terrorism, allegedly for a comment in support of the "Russian Volunteer Corps." He was initially accused of high treason and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization, but those charges were dropped.
Sentence Length
6 years
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