MOSCOW: A Moscow court on Monday fined a prominent blogger who has dual Russian and Israeli citizenship for inciting hatred after he called on President Vladimir Putin to “wipe Syria off the map”.

Russia has conducted a year-long bombing campaign in Syria to bolster long-time ally President Bashar al-Assad, and is currently supporting a brutal offensive by government troops to capture the rebel-held part of Aleppo.

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