Feb. 10 (UPI) —<\/span> A Russian teenager was sent to prison on Thursday for supposedly “training” for terrorist activities and other charges that included blowing up a virtual government intelligence building on the video game Minecraft<\/i>.<\/p>\n A military court in Siberia sentenced the boy, 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov, to five years for the charges — which stemmed from anti-government leaflets he’d handed out and videos on cellphones belonging to Uvarov and at least two others.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Authorities also said they’d uncovered a plot by the teens to blow up a virtual building belonging to the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, that they’d built in the block-building game Minecraft<\/i>.<\/p>\n The FSB is the top intelligence and security service in Russia and the successor to the Soviet-era KGB.<\/p>\n The two other teenagers were given suspended sentences on Thursday because they cooperated with prosecutors in the case against Uvarov.<\/p>\n The case against Uvarov follows a number of other controversial anti-terrorist prosecutions in Russia. In 2020, several young activists were jailed for supposedly planning a coup and other terror-related charges. Some of them claimed that Russian authorities effectively beat confessions out of them — a claim similar to what Uvarov said in court on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n “I am not a terrorist, I am not guilty,” he said, according to The Moscow Times. “I would just like to finish my studies, get an education and go somewhere far away from here, somewhere I don’t irritate anyone from the special services.”<\/p>\n Uvarov also told the court that he never planned to blow anything up.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Federal Security Service building is seen in Moscow, Russia. Prosecutors said that a 16-year-old boy who was sent to jail on Thursday plotted terrorist activities with two others — including blowing up a different FSB office they’d built in the game “Minecraft.”\u00a0 File Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky\/EPA Feb. 10 (UPI) — A Russian teenager […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nThe Federal Security Service building is seen in Moscow, Russia. Prosecutors said that a 16-year-old boy who was sent to jail on Thursday plotted terrorist activities with two others — including blowing up a different FSB office they’d built in the game “Minecraft.”\u00a0 File Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky\/EPA<\/p>\n