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Russian nurse who tried to burn military enlistment office locked up for 8 years

Russian nurse who tried to burn military enlistment office locked up for 8 years

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Russia’s Western Military District court has sentenced Maxim Asriyan, a nurse from St. Petersburg, to eight years in prison for attempting to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office.

Asriyan was accused of climbing over the fence of the office and carrying a flammable liquid, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported Thursday. The 26-year-old was detained at the Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg in October 2022.

Asriyan admitted buying fuel and going to the enlistment office to set the building on fire, but said he changed his mind because he didn’t want people to be injured.

He was found guilty of planning a terrorist attack and high treason. According to media reports, the investigation showed Asriyan “contacted foreign special services” and told a friend that he was “dissatisfied with the current government.” He denied any connection with foreign services or extremist organizations.

He will serve the first two and a half years in prison and the remainder of the sentence in a maximum security penal colony.

A similar case occurred in Irkutsk, where truck driver Ruslan Zinin was tried for the 2022 shooting of a military commissar and attempt to set fire to an enlistment office to prevent the mobilization of his cousin. Zinin, 25, was sentenced on Friday to 19 years in prison.

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