A court in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan on September 11 sentenced blogger Parvinakhan Abuzarova to three years in prison on a charge of making calls online for Russian soldiers to desert the armed forces. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after the Putin-Kim talks that Russia and China will cancel sanctions against North Korea imposed on it to curb its nuclear program, stating that the measures against Pyongyang had been approved by Russia and China in "an absolutely different geopolitical situation. In July that year, when Gabyshev reached the city of Chita, he led a rally in front of hundreds of people under the slogan "Russia Without Putin