Russian blogger appeals to Strasbourg court over social media case

A Russian blogger has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, challenging the sentence he was handed for the republication of extremist texts online, the Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday.

Konstantin Zharinov, a blogger and activist from the Urals region of Chelyabinsk, was convicted in 2015 for sharing a post on Russian social networking website VKontakte from the Ukrainian right-wing nationalist organization Right Sector which called for a Russian uprising against local authorities.