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Putin promoted the judge in the Savchenko case
Judge Ali Khaybulaev, one of the three judges in the Donetsk city court at the trial of Nadezhda Savchenko, has been appointed chairman of the Kirovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don. This is stated in the decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin "On the appointment of judges of federal courts." Thus, Khaibulaev went to work in the regional center from a city with a population of about 50,000 people.
Khaibulaev has been chairman of the Donetsk city court since 2006, according to the court's website. Judge Yuri Kravchenko since 2010 The Kirovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don has been headed by .
- Ukrainian servicewoman Nadezhda Savchenko was accused of involvement in the murder of employees of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin near Luhansk in June 2014.
- Hearings in the Savchenko case began in September 2015 in the Donetsk city court (city of Donetsk, Rostov region). The case was considered by a trio of judges, which included the chairman of the court, Ali Khaibulaev. In March 2016, Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
- The judges who sentenced Nadezhda Savchenko became defendants in a criminal case in Ukraine. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine believes that they delivered a deliberately unjust verdict.
- At the end of May, Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned Savchenko, and she flew to Ukraine. On the same day, citizens of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov, convicted in the case of terrorism, returned to Russia, pardoned by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
- According to the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, Putin was asked to pardon Savchenko by the relatives of the deceased employees of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company - Ekaterina Kornelyuk and Marianna Voloshina. At the end of June , it became known that Ekaterina Kornelyuk became a judge of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.