DARYA TREPOVA

Russian woman jailed for 27 years for cafe bomb killing

The sentence is one of the harshest imposed on a woman in Russia's history.

In Summary

• Tatarsky was killed by a bomb in a statuette Trepova gave him at a talk he was about to give in St Petersburg.

• Dozens were injured in the blast.

Russian woman Darya Trepova
Russian woman Darya Trepova
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Russian woman Darya Trepova has been sentenced to 27 years in jail for the killing of pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky last April.

Tatarsky was killed by a bomb in a statuette Trepova gave him, as he was about to give a talk in St Petersburg. Dozens were injured in the blast.

Trepova, 26, denied the charges, saying she thought the statuette contained a listening device.

The sentence is one of the harshest imposed on a woman in Russia's history.

The attack on Tatarsky, 40, (real name Maxim Fomin) happened on 2 April last year.

Trepova was charged under the criminal code with "a terrorist act carried out by an organised group causing intentional death" and the "illegal possession of explosive devices by an organised group".

Russian investigators have accused Ukraine of being behind the attack, and Ukrainian officials have neither confirmed nor denied this.

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