The ex-mayor of Rybinsk, convicted of bribery, went on a hunger strike after being placed in a punishment cell.
In correctional colony No. 6 in Bezhetsk, Tver region, the former mayor of Rybinsk, Yuri Lastochkin, sentenced to 8.5 years for bribery, went on a hunger strike after he was placed in a punishment cell, reports 76.ru. The ex-mayor's lawyer Ruben Markaryan said that his client was placed in a punishment cell a few days after Lastochkin commented on the message of President Vladimir Putin and mentioned the NPO Saturn, which he headed for some time.