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A Russian teenager was jailed for five years for planning to blow up a virtual building of the FSB security service that was built in the game on computers called Minecraft. Pavel Chikov, rights lawyer, said that Nikita Uvarov (16) was given his sentence. He will serve it in a penal colony under the supervision of a military court, Siberia for the charge of "training terrorist activities". Chikov said that two other defendants were freed from criminal charges and were given suspended sentences for cooperating with investigators. The hearing was held in a closed room. The ruling falls into a larger pattern under the presidency of Vladimir Putin in which young Russians are put behind bars for preemptive and controversial terrorism charges. Pavel Chikov, rights lawyer for Nikita Uvarov, stated that Nikita Uvarov (16) was sentenced to five-years in a penal colony in Siberia for 'training terrorist activities'. Police discovered messages between Uvarov and two other people regarding plans to blow up the FSB building they had built in the block-building game Minecraft (file photo of the game). In summer 2020, Uvarov along with two other teenagers were detained in the Siberian city of Kansk for distributing leaflets to support a Moscow mathematician and anarchist activist on trial for vandalism. The trio placed one of the leaflets in an office building in the local area of the FSB, Russia's powerful domestic security agency and successor of the KGB from the Soviet era. KGB. Police confiscated their phones, and discovered an exchange on plans to blow up an FSB building they made in the block-building game Minecraft. According to investigators the three teenagers were making homemade explosive devices and practiced blasting them in abandoned structures. "That's an international war when Americans and Russia begin shooting... MINECRAFT PACKS Russia is accused of abusing Olympians who were not taking drugs... The teenagers initially faced more severe charges of 'participating in a terrorist group however the case was dropped because of the lack of evidence. According to the Novaya Gazeta newspaper's report, Uvarov admitted that he was under pressure from the authorities during the investigation, but denied having any plans to explode anything. He pleaded not guilty, and said that if sentenced to real prison time and was sentenced to prison, he would do it with a clear conscience as well as dignity. He stated, "For the last time in court I want to say that I am not a terrorist." "I'm just trying to complete my studies, receive an education and move far away from the city without causing any annoyance who is a part of the special services.' Uvarov (pictured here with his mother Anna) has spoken out about the pressure that he felt during the probe and denied that he planned to blow anything up. Russian opposition figures have condemned the sentence via social media. LyubovSobol, a ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Twitter, "Sick sadists imprison kids for playing games and having fun." Three activists were sentenced to jail time for plotting to overthrow Putin's government in August of 2020. They were accused of belonging to a group known as "New Greatness" anarchist group. In a case initiated and backed by the FSB four other defendants were sentenced to suspended sentences. In February 2020, seven young anarchists and anti-fascists were sentenced between six and 18 years in prison based on terror charges and other offenses. In 2017 and 2018, the men were arrested Most of the suspects claimed that they were detained with electrodes and beats to confess.