"Guarantee a polar night and northern lights"

The OVD-Info publishes a letter from the film director Oleg Sentsov to the Chelyabinsk human rights activists Nikolai and Tatyana Schur. Sentsov was sentenced to twenty years in a maximum security colony on charges of allegedly led the terrorist group in the Crimea. Over the past weeks, conflicting information about his whereabouts appeared.

Nikolai and Tatyana, hello!

I am writing to you from the city of Kirov. I recently drove through your lands in my next voyage, which I was completely free, with meals and enhanced security, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation arranged :) :) I am heading from Yakutia to Yamal through Siberia and the Urals.

I have already figured that over these three years, thanks to this Russian tour operator, I was able to see all the big rivers of Russia: Volga, Kama, Ob, Yenisei and Lena. Even the edge saw Baikal from an air prison window on a flight Charter Yakutsk - Irkutsk. Now again I intend not only to look at the Ob, but also to temporarily settle somewhere in the area of ​​its confluence in the same lip! :))). The name of the place is Labytnangi (I hope that I wrote correctly), this is somewhere near Harp, “polar owl” and polar bears. Guaranteed the polar night and northern lights. As for me, it would be very stupid to abandon such a flattering sentence, especially since no one asked my opinion :)). On the way, I examined several considered “terrible” places: Irkutsk, Omsk, now Kirov. Kochka did not collect, there was no degrading dignity or physical impact. The regime, but on "Passive." Are times changing or skillfully pretending? I hope that the first one. I did not receive your letters in Yakutia, although I knew that you wrote to me. He wrote one from himself, but, apparently, it did not reach either. Yakutia in this regard is some kind of black hole.

In general, everything is fine with me, my health is normal, the flight is safely :)). Give our hello to all our hello!

Naturally, it is not necessary to write to this address - now they are transported by the stages quickly, so I will move further before you receive this letter. (I hope you get if Kirov is not like Yakutia).

Allow this on this.

Separate hello to Sasha Kolchenko. I have no doubt that everything is fine with him: the tundra will not disappear! :))

All the best to you!

Sincerely,

Oleg Sentsov

09/27/17

Original: Sencov.pdf

In September 2017, it became known that Sentsov was transported somewhere from a colony in Yakutia, where he stayed for about a year and a half. There were reports that he was taken through Chelyabinsk, but then the household pre -trial detention center was official : they did not have a sensts. At the end of September, journalist and human rights activist Zoya Svetovapublished a letter from Sentsov from pre -trial detention center No. 1 to Tyumen, written on September 21. The letter published below was sent from pre -trial detention center No. 1 in Kirov on September 27. In a letter Sveta, Sentsov wrote that they were going to send him to Yamal, to a colony in the village of Harp. Information about Yamal is also confirmed in the current letter of Sentsov, but the exact destination is now different-IK-8 in the village of Labytnangi. As Tatyana Schur explained by the OVD-Info, there is no direct railway line from Tyumen to Yamal, and you need to go to Labytnangs through Harp.