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Alexander Sokolov

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На свободе

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Sochi

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Biography

Resident of Sochi. A case of public justification of terrorism was brought against him in connection with statements about Mikhail Zhlobitskiy, who carried out a suicide bombing in the building of the Ukrainian Federal Security Service in Arkhangelsk. On 1 August 2019, Sokolov was sentenced to two and a half years in a general regime colony.

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