Former prefect of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow asked for political asylum in Lithuania
Yuri Khardikov. Photo "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" The former prefect of the northern district of the capital, Yuri Khardikov, who is accused of embezzling one billion rubles from the wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow, Elena Baturina, turned to the Lithuanian authorities with a request to grant him political asylum, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports, citing Khardikov's lawyer Rimantas Andrikis.