A court in Russia's second city Saint Petersburg sentenced a man to two
years in a penal colony Monday for insulting high-ranking state
officials on social media. Vladimir Timoshenko, 43, was found guilty of
writing a post on popular Russian social network Vkontakte that
"contained text of humiliating and insulting nature towards high placed
officials," the court said in a statement.
Timoshenko wrote the post in 2015 while serving a six year prison sentence, the statement added without clarifying what his previous conviction was.
In the post, which has since disappeared from Vkontakte, Timoshenko called on Russians to rise up against an "unpopular regime."
Timoshenko wrote the post in 2015 while serving a six year prison sentence, the statement added without clarifying what his previous conviction was.
In the post, which has since disappeared from Vkontakte, Timoshenko called on Russians to rise up against an "unpopular regime."
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