Sobchak asked Putin to pardon 16 people

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MOSCOW, March 19 (Itar-Tass) - RIA Novosti. Ksenia Sobchak at a meeting of Vladimir Putin with rivals for the election of the Russian president handed him a petition for clemency of 16 people, the press service of her campaign headquarters.
Ksenia Sobchak before the meeting of Vladimir Putin with candidates for the post of president of the Russian Federation

"In the list Sobchak 16 surnames: Dmitry Borisov, Stanislav Zimovets, Alexander Kolchenko, Vladimir Lapygin, Sergei Mokhnatkin, Oleg Navalny, Alexander Sokolov, Oleg Sentsov and others," the report said.

It is noted that the president promised to consider her application.

Oppositionist Aleksei Navalny and his brother Oleg were convicted in December 2014 for stealing more than 26 million rubles from the company "Yves Rocher" and over 4 million rubles from the "Multidisciplinary Processing Company", as well as for legalizing more than 21 million rubles. According to the verdict that came into force, Aleksei Navalny received three and a half years probation, and Oleg Navalny - the same term, but real imprisonment.

Journalist RBC Alexander Sokolov in August 2017 was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on charges of extremism. According to the investigation, he and several other defendants participated in the movement connected with the "Army of the People's Will", banned in Russia, and aimed at loosening the political situation in the country.

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov was sentenced by the Russian court to 20 years of the colony on charges of organizing terrorist attacks in the Crimea. This conviction to 10 years of imprisonment was also condemned by the accomplice Sentsov Alexander Kolchenko. Two more figurants of this case, Alexei Chirny and Gennady Afanasyev, received seven years in prison.

Former employee of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (the head institute of "Rosmosmos") Vladimir Lapygin in September 2016 was sentenced to seven years in a strict-regime colony for state treason. The investigation imputed to the scientist the transfer abroad of certain technological information. The case materials were not disclosed because of secrecy.

A participant in an unauthorized rally in Moscow on March 26, 2017, Stanislav Zimovets was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in July of the same year. A participant in the same action, Dmitry Borisov, in February 2018, was sentenced to one year in prison for beating a policeman.

In March 2017, the Kotlassky City Court sentenced the imprisoned oppositionist Sergei Mokhnatkin to two years in prison for disorganizing the activities of the penitentiary institutions, he was finally sentenced to two and a half years in a strict-regime colony for the total number of crimes. In April 2015, the Moscow City Court found it legitimate to convict Mohnatkin, who was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for beating two policemen. Two injured police officers informed the court during the hearings that during the mass event in the center of Moscow on December 31, 2013, several times Mokhnatkin hit them in the face and swore scorn. Earlier, the oppositionist was already convicted of opposing the representatives of the authorities. In 2012, Dmitry Medvedev, then the Russian president, signed a decree to pardon Mohnatkin convicted of an attack on a policeman on December 31, 2009 at an unsanctioned rally on Triumfalnaya Square.

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