Alexey Pichugin
The US House of Representatives adopted a resolution demanding that Russia “release political prisoners.” The text of the document is available on the website of the legislative body.
We are talking about the former head of the security service of the YUKOS oil company Alexei Pichugin, who was convicted of murder for life, Igor Rudnikov, editor-in-chief of the Kaliningrad newspaper Novye kolesi, activists Konstantin Kotov and Anastasia Shevchenko, the historian Yuri Dmitriev, convicted of pedophilia, and Dennis sentenced to six years for preaching the community of Jehovah's Witnesses, an extremist organization banned in Russia. The resolution is advisory in nature.
On September 29, the Supreme Court of Karelia reviewed the sentence to Yuri Dmitriev and increased his term of imprisonment from 3.5 to 13 years. He was found guilty of sexually assaulting his adopted daughter, who at the time was less than 14 years old. In the late 1990s, Dmitriev found mass graves of those repressed in 1937-1938 in the Sandarmokh tract near Medvezhyegorsk.
In 2007, the court sentenced the head of the YUKOS security service, Alexei Pichugin, to life in prison, having found guilty of organizing the murder of the mayor of Nefteyugansk, Vladimir Petukhov, director of the Moscow Phoenix company Valentina Korneva, and Tambov businessman Sergei Gorin and his wife. In addition, he was charged with attempted murder of Olga Kostina, the former public relations adviser to the former head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and businessman Sergei Rybin.
