MOSCOW—A Russian news agency says a Siberian court has convicted a college student to 16 months in prison for joking about killing President-elect Dmitry Medvedev.
Prosecutors say Anton Epikhin threatened to murder Medvedev and attack polling stations during last month's election.
ITAR-Tass quotes Epikhin as saying he was just pretending to be a terrorist. He says the message he sent to a Barnaul news agency was "simply a prank gone wrong."
The agency says Epikhin was convicted Monday under new legislation aimed at punishing fraudulent terrorist warnings.
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