The organizers of the “Kolybelka” parent assistance center, active promoters and practitioners of home births, spouses Elena and Alexey Ermakov, were sentenced to five and a half years in prison. For Elena Ermakova, imprisonment has become more than a reality: she, who recently became a mother, will have to spend the coming years in a penal colony (unless the lawyers manage to get the sentence overturned or changed). For her husband Alexei, the court chose a suspended sentence.