Interview of Konstantin Kotov, who had been a year for a year and a half under the "Dadinsky article" In 2019, the 34-year-old Muscovite Konstantin Kotov was sentenced to four years in colony for participating in several protests and a post on Facebook. In April of this year, the verdict was softened, reducing the term to one and a half years. On the morning of December 16, Kotov was released from a colony in the Vladimir region.