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A Russian court has sentenced five men convicted of murdering opposition leader Boris Nemtsov to 20 years in jail.

Of the convicts, Zaur Dadayev, a soldier from southern Russia’s predominantly Muslim region of Chechnya, was handed the longest term on July 13.

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