“I could have been shot from any tower.”
Photo: PublicPost Collage According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, as of March 1, 2013, there were almost 698 thousand convicts in Russia. In Russian colonies, not only do people sit, get divorced and die, but they are also born and get married: in 2011, 299 weddings were registered in places of deprivation of liberty, in 2012 - 438. In March of this year, Leonid Kovyazin, a defendant in the “Bolotnaya case”, got married in a Moscow pre-trial detention center.