February 10, 2022 04:54 pm GMT
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16-year-old in Russia sentenced to 5 years in prison for blowing up the KGB's virtual building in Minecraft
The Guardian reports that a Siberian military court sentenced 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov to five years in a penal colony for "training for terrorist activities." His "terrorist activities" amounted to planning to "blow up" a virtual building in the computer game Minecraft created by the FSB, which Putin's security agency formerly known as the KGB. — Read the rest
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