The Buiucani Court sentenced Russian blogger Eduard Baghirov, who is accused by the Moldovan prosecutors of helping organize the mass disorder of April 2009 in central Chisinau, to five years in jail on April 24, IPN reports.

In a communique, the Prosecutor General’s Office says it was proven that Baghirov took part in the organization of the April 2009 public disorder in the center of Chisinau, within an organized criminal group. The verdict was returned in the absence of the culprit, who was put on the wanted list on October 19, 2011 after escaping to Russia from under house arrest.

The prosecutors proved that in 2008 and the first half of 2009, infiltrating as a blogger and writer into the social sphere and using technologies for manipulating the masses, took an active part in planning and staging provocations aimed at undermining the electoral process before and after the April 2009 parliamentary elections. These actions were to take the form of a Twitter revolution, while the responsibility for the consequences of the violent acts was to be shifted onto the opposition forces.

The sentence is not yet definitive.