KRASNOYARSK. Aug 15 (Interfax) - The Second Eastern Military District Court has convicted two residents of Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory of preparing to stage a terrorist attack on cellular towers, the military courts' press service said.
"During phone calls and in-person meetings with the commander of a military unit in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, they asked him to give them TNT, a dynamo condenser exploder and electronic detonators," it said.
The commander contacted the FSB and agreed to provide the explosives as part of the service's operation, it said.
The two Krasnoyarsk Territory residents were detained by FSB officers after they received dummy explosives.
The court gave one of them a seven-year sentence, the first three years of which will be served in prison and the rest in a high-security penal colony. The other received a six-year term, the first three years of which will be served in prison and the rest in a high-security penal colony.
The two were also sentenced to freedom restraints for one year and a fine of 300,000 rubles.
The sentence has not yet entered into force.