Russia convicts Putin-critic MH17 killer for ‘inciting extremism’
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Russia convicts Putin-critic MH17 killer for ‘inciting extremism’

The MH17 killer has been sentenced‚ but not in the Netherlands‚ not for life‚ and not for the murder of 298 people.   Igor Girkin‚ a pro-war Russian nationalist‚ was instead found to be complaining too much on social media about President Vladimir Putin’s leadership of the war against Ukraine. A court in Moscow on Thursday found Girkin guilty on charges of inciting extremism after his series of diatribes against the Russian leader appeared to go too far.