Moscow, Aug 24 : A Russian court today sentenced ultranationalist politician Alexander Belov, a former leader of a banned anti-immigration movement, to seven and a half years in prison for extremism and money laundering. Belov was formerly coordinator of the populist Movement Against Illegal Immigrants, or DPNI, which had the slogan “Russia for (ethnic) Russians” and was banned as extremist in 2011. Its leaders then formed a new nationalist movement called “Russians” that was banned last year.
Moscow’s Meshchansky district court found Belov, whose real surname is Potkin, guilty of forming an “extremist” group and inciting ethnic hatred as well …read more
Source: India.com
