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Former head of the Library of Ukrainian Literature Natalya /Natalia/ Sharina, accused of embezzlement and inciting ethnic hatred, arrives for the announcement of the verdict at Moscow's Meshchansky district court on June 5, 2017. A Russian court on June 5 found the former head of a Ukrainian library in Moscow guilty of "extremism" in a high-profile case critics labelled a political witchhunt. Natalya Sharina, 59, was given a four-year suspended sentence for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred against Russians by stocking books by a banned Ukrainian nationalist writer, and for a separate embezzlement charge. / AFP PHOTO / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)

Former head of the Library of Ukrainian Literature Natalya /Natalia/ Sharina, accused of embezzlement and inciting ethnic hatred, arrives for the announcement of the verdict at Moscow's Meshchansky district court on June 5, 2017.
A Russian court on June 5 found the former head of a Ukrainian library in Moscow guilty of "extremism" in a high-profile case critics labelled a political witchhunt. Natalya Sharina, 59, was given a four-year suspended sentence for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred against Russians by stocking books by a banned Ukrainian nationalist writer, and for a separate embezzlement charge. / AFP PHOTO / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV        (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)