Igor Girkin never went to jail for MH17. But now he does, because he called Putin “cowardly mediocrity.”

Igor Girkin, Kremlin critic, former military commander of the separatists in eastern Ukraine and MH17 convict in the Netherlands, must serve four years in prison for “incitement to extremism”. The court in Moscow ruled this. While Russia never wanted to extradite Girkin for his role in the MH17 disaster, which left 298 dead, his criticism of Putin is now costing him dearly in his own country.

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