Natalya Sharina, 59, was given a four-year suspended sentence for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred against Russians. A Russian court on Monday found the former head of a Ukrainian library in Moscow guilty of “extremism” in a high-profile case critics labelled a political witchhunt.Natalya Sharina, 59, was given a four-year suspended sentence for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred against Russians by stocking books by a banned Ukrainian nationalist writer, and for a separate embezzlement charge.The lengthy case against Sharina — who has been under house arrest since 2015 — comes as relations between ex-Soviet neighbours Ukraine and Russia have collapsed over Moscow’s …read more
Source: Pulse Nigeria
