A court in Moscow on June 5 handed a four-year suspended prison sentence to Natalya Sharina, the head of Russia’s only state-run Ukrainian language library, after finding her guilty of inciting ethnic hatred and embezzlement, a Reuters reporter in the courtroom said.
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Reuters: Head of Russia’s only Ukrainian library gets suspended jail term
Former head of the Library of Ukrainian Literature Natalya Sharina, charged with embezzlement and inciting ethnic hatred and violating human dignity by distributing books by Ukrainian ultranationalist author, Dmytro Korchynsky, whose works are banned in Russia, attends a hearing at Moscow's Meshchansky district court on May 25.
