The Moscow City Court on Thursday convicted a former Ukraine rebel leader who called President Vladimir Putin cowardly, and sentenced him to four years in prison.
Girkin then returned to Russia and became a nationalist commentator and activist. He supported launching Russia's war in Ukraine, but sharply criticised authorities for being inept and indecisive in carrying out the fight - last year going so far as to call Putin a "nonentity" and a person of "cowardly mediocrity". He was arrested in July on extremism charges, and has been in custody since then.
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