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Russian court jails Canadian-Russian national for seven years in treason case
MOSCOW, Sept 16 (Reuters) – A Russian court has convicted a Russian-Canadian national of treason and sentenced him to seven years in a penal colony for work he did for for separatist movements based outside Russia, the RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday.
RIA reported that the man, whom it named as Nikolai Zyuzev, had been convicted of high treason for working to train leaders of “national liberation movements” among Russian ethnic minority groups abroad.
It cited Russia’s Federal Security Service as saying that his work had been aimed against the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. RIA did not say how Zyuzev had pleaded to the treason charge.
