
Former Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina, together with her comrades Olga Borisova and Alexander Sofaev, held an action in Yakutsk in support of the Ukrainian filmmaker from Crimea Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year term in the fabricated case of terrorism. Alekhina reported about the action on her FB page. The protesters hung a stretch on the bridge over the Lake Saysars with the inscription "free sentsov" and lit smoke bombs.
Alekhin does not mention the police 'attempts to stop the action and detain its participants.
"The case of Sentsov and Kolchenko is one of the main and key political affairs in the history of our country," the publication says.
On the eve of Alekhin, Borisov and Sofeev, they visited IK-1 strict mode, which contains the Crimean prisoner. The purpose of the visit by Alekhin called "look at the colony of Oleg Sentsov." Whether the activists tried to get a meeting with Politzek, she did not report.
Sentsov sentenced Sentsov on August 25, 2015 the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. The second person involved in the case - the left activist Alexander Kolchenko - received a 10 -year term ( 
Neither Sentsov nor Kolchenko pleaded guilty.
In October 2016, it was reported that the Russian Ministry of Justice refused Ukraine to issue political zones. Officials referred to the fact that Sentsov and Kolchenko after the annexation of Crimea became Russian citizens, and therefore, according to Russian laws, even if they have citizens of other states, they are not subject to time to retire to these countries. In fact, however, neither Sentsov nor Kolchenko became citizens of Russia. Both political prisoners have repeatedly emphasized that only Ukrainian citizenship have.
As reported by the cousin of Sentsova Natalya Kochneva (Kaplan), the Yakutsk IK-1 administration, where the Politzek arrived in March last year , repeatedly placed him in a schizo . Meanwhile, lawyer Dmitry Dinze, who visited his client in the colony in December, reported that he had "everything is fine." The director told the lawyer that during the imprisonment he wrote five scenarios and one story .
At the end of April 2017, the American Pen-Center handed Sentsov to the Sentsov Prize "Freedom to write", awarded for short films "The Bananka Fish" and the Horn of the Bull "and the full-length Gamer ribbon are well caught.