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Moscow University Postgraduate gets 6 years in jail for attack on Ruling Party's Office

Moscow, Jan 18 (Sputnik) A Moscow court on Monday handed a six-year prison sentence to Azat Miftakhov, a postgraduate student of the Moscow State University, over an 2018 arson attack on the ruling United Russia party's office, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the courtroom.
"To find Miftakhov guilty of hooliganism ... committed with the help of items used as weapons by a group of persons acting on the basis of prior agreement. To impose a sentence of six years in prison," Judge Sergei Bazarov said, reading out the ruling.
Miftakhov will serve his sentence at a general regime penal colony. Two other defendants, Elena Gorban and Andrey Eikin, received four and two years of suspended sentences, respectively.
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