# Russian-Canadian citizen gets seven years in penal colony for treason — FSB

https://mins.news/en/item/60639

- TASS, 2026-09-16 09:21 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/society/2188255

> Russia’s FSB says the Supreme Court of the Komi Republic sentenced Russian-Canadian citizen Nikolay Zyuzev to seven years in a strict-regime penal colony, plus one year of restricted freedom, for high treason. The agency says he ran a foreign-funded project that spread extremist materials and collected information for EU bodies and analytical centers. Zyuzev admitted guilt.

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