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A resident of Russia's Chelyabinsk region in the Urals has been sentenced to four years in jail on terrorism charges.A court in the city of Magnitogorsk also sentenced the 43-year old man on September 19 to one year of "freedom limitation," which is similar to a suspended sentence with parole limitations.

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