MOSCOW (Reuters) - A man long relied on by President Vladimir Putin to rule one of Russia's most violent cities was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Wednesday on charges of plotting a "terrorist" attack to kill a political rival.
A military court convicted accused Said Amirov, the mayor of Dagestan's capital Makhachkala from 1988 to 2013, of conspiring to use an anti-aircraft missile to shoot down a plane carrying the local head of the state pension fund.
