Russian court hands life sentence to man for bomb attack on Russian nationalist writer, Ifax reports

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Russian court hands life sentence to man for ***** ******* on Russian nationalist writer, Ifax reports

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A military court in Moscow sentenced a man to life in prison on Monday after finding him guilty of attempting to ************ prominent Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin in a car ******** last year, the Interfax news agency reported.

Alexander Permyakov, who holds both Russian and Ukrainian passports according to Russian media, was arrested soon after the ******* on May 6, 2023 near the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, about 400 km (250 miles) east of Moscow. Prilepin’s legs were broken in the ******* and his driver was *******.

Permyakov confessed to the ******, saying he had acted on instructions from Ukraine’s SBU security service and had been promised $20,000 to complete the job, Russian state media reported. The SBU has declined to confirm or deny its involvement.

The author of half a dozen novels, Prilepin, 49, often speaks out in support of the Ukraine war on his website,

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channel and on Telegram, where he has about 300,000 followers.

For years, he organised Russian proxy forces in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and led a military unit there, boasting in a 2019

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interview that his unit had “******* people in big numbers”.

Prilepin is one of several prominent Russian pro-war figures to be targeted in ***** attacks.

Darya Dugina, daughter of ultra-nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin, was ******* near Moscow in August 2022 by a car ***** that many suspected was intended for her father.

In April 2023, well-known Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was ******* after a package he was handed in a cafe in St Petersburg blew up. In January, a 26-year-old woman was jailed for 27 years for delivering the *****.

(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Mark Trevelyan/Andrew Osborn)

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