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Accomplice of former intelligence Colonel Kvachkov sentenced to 12 years in prison

According to investigators, Yermakov was member of the unregistered all-Russian public movement People’s Militia of Minin and Pozharsky, which aimed at the seizure of state power in Russia
Alexander Yermakov during trial ITAR-TASS/Donat Sorokin
Alexander Yermakov during trial
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YEKATERINBURG, April 30. /ITAR-TASS/. The Sverdlovsk Regional Court on Wednesday passed a sentence on Alexander Yermakov, the accomplice of Vladimir Kvachkov, former Colonel of Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian General Staff. The court found him guilty of making preparations for an armed mutiny, as well as preparations for assassination attempts on public figures and sentenced him to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony.