Leonid Volkov: "Petlin's verdict"

“I do not consider Petlin to be either a “political prisoner” or a “fighter against the regime”; in my eyes, since the fall of 2010, he has been nothing but a petty swindler, but I consider the punishment imposed on him to be absolutely inadequate.

I outlined in detail my position on Petlin’s case when his preventive measure was suddenly changed in the summer of 2011, and my position has not changed since then: Petlin committed an absolutely immoral, but most likely formally unpunished act within the framework of the Russian Criminal Code, and in general In general, admonition in the form of the several months that he has already spent in a pre-trial detention center is quite a sufficient punishment for him."