MOSCOW (Reuters) - A man convicted of plotting to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin by blowing up his motorcade was jailed for 10 years on Tuesday, the prosecutor-general's office said.
A Moscow court found Ilya Pyanzin hatched the plan with two other men in 2011 at the behest of Doku Umarov, the leader of an Islamist insurgency in Russia's North Caucasus region, the office added.
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