Irina Khalip asked the wives of Putin and Medvedev to help free her husband
Irina Khalip with the family. Photo "Novaya Gazeta" The wife of the ex-candidate of Belarus, Andrei Sannikova, Irina Khalip, asked a letter to the wives of the President and Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin with a request to help free her husband, convicted on charges of organizing riots in Minsk in December 2010. According to the New Gazeta, Halip wrote the same letters to the wives of the presidents of France, the USA, Poland and the Prime Minister of Great Britain.