A journalist who wrote about corruption in the village of Kushchevskaya and convicted for 9 years, died in a colony
The Rostov journalist and human rights activist Alexander Tolmachev died in the Orenburg correctional colony of N9, sentenced to 9 years in a colony on charges of extortion, public defender Alexander Issycheev told Znak.com with reference to his relatives. “He had health problems. The wife says that he coughs, but did not want to go to the hospital. There is a suspicion that he died of coronavirus. But there was no autopsy yet,” said School. Before the release, Tolmachev remained only a month.