MOSCOW. June 29 (Interfax) - The Second Western District Military Court has sentenced blogger Ruslan Ushakov to eight years' imprisonment for fake news about the Russian Armed Forces, terrorist propaganda, and rehabilitating Nazism, the Moscow prosecution service said on Thursday.
"The court has sentenced Ushakov to eight years' imprisonment in a general penitentiary and has prohibited him from administering telecommunication resources, including websites, for three years," the service said.
The blogger, who operated the Real Crime Telegram channel, was found guilty of spreading fake news about the Russian Armed Forces, justifying terrorism, rehabilitating Nazism and inciting enmity or hatred on the Internet.
The court found that "Ushakov created a public chat in a messenger and published texts justifying terrorist ideology and actions, calling for the physical extermination of people on the basis of [their] ethnicity, advocating National Socialism (Nazi) ideology, and publishing fake information about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces."