ITAR-TASS, Russia July 20, 2017 Thursday 9:25 AM GMT Lawyer says jailed blogger Lapshin may be extradited to Russia, Israel or Ukraine BAKU July 20 HIGHLIGHT: Travel blogger Alexander Lapshin, who was sentenced by Azerbaijan on Thursday to three years behind bars over his visit to a disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, may be extradited to one of three countries where he holds citizenship, his lawyer Eduard Chernin told TASS. BAKU, July 20. /TASS/. Travel blogger Alexander Lapshin, who was sentenced by Azerbaijan on Thursday to three years behind bars over his visit to a disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, may be extradited to one of three countries where he holds citizenship, his lawyer Eduard Chernin told TASS. "Extradition is possible, this is envisaged by the law. Under international conventions, Lapshin may be extradited if Russia, Israel or Ukraine, of which he is citizen, file requests," the lawyer said. The blogger should announce his wish to be extradited. "Now there are no particular plans here," he added. The lawyer said his client should decide whether to appeal the sentence. Chernin said the court’s decision is "far more than good," stressing that "further procedural steps will be taken upon agreement with Lapshin." Earlier on Thursday, a court on grave crimes in Baku sentenced Lapshin to three years behind bars over his visit to Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed border region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The court did not find Lapshin guilty of calling for violating Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, noting that the charges pressed against him "were not proved during the investigation." The prosecutors demanded sentencing Lapshin to six years and a half in prison. Lapshin was detained in the Belarusian capital of Minsk in December 2016 at Baku’s request. He was flown to Baku on February 7 and handed over to the Azerbaijani State Security Service. Azerbaijan’s prosecutors opened criminal cases against him envisaging jail terms of between five and eight years. Nagorno-Karabakh sought independence from Azerbaijan at the end of the 1980s, which resulted in a war between Azerbaijan and Armenia that claimed the lives of 25,000-30,000 people between 1988 and 1994. Since then, the territory has been controlled by Armenia.