By bne IntelliNews Usman Baratov, head of the interregional Uzbek community ‘Vatandosh,’ has been sentenced by a Moscow region court to four years in a general regime penal colony for inciting hatred and enmity, SOTAvision has reported. Baratov, who denied the charges, reportedly expressed his discontent with the legal proceedings, stating that ‘the court is a servant, not a separate branch of power.’ His lawyer, Oksana Olgerdt, participated in the hearing via videoconference but complained about the poor quality of the connection, which prevented her from hearing the judge announce the verdic…
