2023-11-24 17:27:06
Nikolai Ogolobiak, sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2010, was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin and returned home in early November, according to the 76.ru news portal from the Yaroslavl region where the person has settled and where his crimes had been committed.
At the time, these murders hit the headlines and shocked Russia. This pardon and those of other convicts, like one of the accomplices in the 2006 assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, opened a timid debate in Russia on the merits of this policy. However, the Kremlin, questioned on the subject once again on Wednesday, does not foresee any change.
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“The question is not new, it has been raised several times, and currently everyone is looking closely at these lists of pardoned people,” noted Dmitri Peskov, Mr. Putin’s spokesperson.
“But I repeat, these are specific conditions (of grace), linked to a presence on the front line, to a certain duration spent on the front line, linked to participation in assault groups, and that is after that there is grace,” he explained, adding that “there is no revision” of this policy.
Families of victims in other cases denounced this measure, especially since they had not been informed of these releases.
Questioned on the subject at the beginning of November, Mr. Peskov defended these pardons, believing that “people convicted, including for serious crimes, atone for their crime with blood on the battlefield”.
Tens of thousands of Russian detainees have joined the front in Ukraine, often under contracts with paramilitary groups such as the Wagner Group. If they survive six months of fighting, they are eligible for a pardon.
These men often served in the most dangerous areas of the front and, by the admission of Wagner’s late boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, were used as cannon fodder.
They had eaten pieces of their corpses
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that “at this stage, the Russian army has made prisoners its main source of compensation for losses on the battlefield.”
According to the site 76.ru, which says it interviewed the father of Nikolai Ogolobiak, 33, the latter was seriously injured and is now disabled.
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