A Russian court hassentenced former Moscow municipal deputy and current Pussy Riot member Lucy Shtein to six years in prison in absentia for anti-war social media posts.Moscows Basmanny District Court found Shtein guilty of spreading war fakes and said her prison sentence would begin once she is extradited to Russia, the courts press service announced on Wednesday.Shtein, 27,fled from house arrest in Russia for Lithuania with her girlfriend and Pussy Riot bandmate Maria Alyokhina in the spring of 2022, weeks after Moscow invaded Ukraine.In May, media in Icelandreported that Shtein and Alyokhina both received fast-tracked Icelandic citizenship.Shtein was tried for a March 2022post on X (formerly Twitter) in which she accused Russian troops captured by Ukrainian soldiers of bombing foreign cities and killing people, the independent news website Mediazonareported.Prosecutors had requested an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence against her.Shteinjoked on X that her mother had bet on prosecutors requesting a nine-year prison sentence.Russian law enforcement first placed the Pussy Riot member on its wanted list in May 2022 on unspecified charges, though state-run media had reported that she wascharged with making false allegations about the Russian military in Ukraine.Spreading false information about Russias armed forces is punishable by up to 10 years in prison under the countrys wartime censorship laws.Shtein had until 2022 served as a Moscow municipal deputy after being elected as a member of the liberal opposition party Yabloko in 2017.