'Russian student sentenced for making joke to kill Medvedev'
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Russian news agency says a Siberian court has convicted a college student for making a joke threat to kill President-elect Dmitry Medvedev and has sentenced him to 16 months in prison.
Prosecutors say Anton Epikhin had posed as a terrorist group member threatening to murder Medvedev and attack polling stations during last month's election.
ITAR-Tass quotes Epikhin as saying the message he sent to a Barnaul news agency was "simply a prank gone wrong."
The agency says Epikhin was convicted Monday under new legislation aimed at punishing fraudulent terrorist warnings.
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