Translated material
Ah, have mercy
Vladimir Putin personally congratulated Lyudmila Alekseev on the 90th anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki Group, the Kremlin’s press service reports . The president gave her an engraving with the view of Yevpatoria.
“This is your small homeland,” Putin said, handing a gift. Alekseeva was born in Yevpatoria. However, already in early childhood she moved with her parents to Moscow.
"I am grateful to you for everything that you have done for many, many years for a huge number of people in our country who love you very much, are grateful to you for your life that you lived for people," said Alekseeva President.
During the visit, Alekseeva asked Putin to have mercy on the ex-period of the ex-Senator from Bashkiria Igor Izmestiev, Interfax reports . "I told the president:" This is not a gift, this is a request. Do a good deed - have mercy on Igor Izmestiev. This is mercy ... I know, Vladimir Vladimirovich, that when you promise, you are sure to do. "He said: yes. I say, I promise,” said Alekseeva. “Now tomorrow I will delight Igor Izmestiev’s mother with this news.”
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Putin promised to consider the mercy of Izmestiev. "Yes. The president said that this is possible, and that it would take time," Peskov said
Izmestiev was engaged in oil business and was a senator from Bashkiria from 2001 to 2006. In 2007, FSB officers detained Izmestiev at Bishkek Airport, where he flew to negotiations. The ex-Senator was accused of involvement in the murder of notary Galina Perepelkina, the wife of his former business partner Yuri Bushuev.
In 2010, Izmestev was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to life imprisonment on charges of organizing murders, terrorism, banditry, organizing a bribe and attempted life of the Urals Rakhimov, the son of the then president of Bashkiria, Murtazi Rakhimov. At the same time, the court satisfied the claims of the victims for a total of 7.8 million rubles.
The testimony of Izmestiev became the basis for the arrest of entrepreneur Levon Ayrapetyan, a fiery of the defendants in a criminal case of theft of shares of the Bashneft oil company .