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A 38-year-old woman from Yalta, a city on the Crimean peninsula, has been given a two-year suspended sentence for allegedly inciting extremism online (Part 2, Article 280 of the Russian Criminal Code), reports Komsomolskaya Pravda, citing the FSB’s office for Crimea and Sevastopol.

The SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis, which found a case record on the Yalta City Court website, writes that the convicted woman is named Alena Guseva.

In passing sentence, the court took into account that she has underage children.

According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Guseva “called for the destruction of Russians and insulted them” in her online comments.

After her detention, she said she began posting comments after the start of the war, influenced by posts in Ukrainian Telegram channels. “I started reading information in these channels, and that information led me to think that everything was very bad, and I began to write not very nice comments about Russian troops,” Guseva said. She pleaded guilty.