The author of the text Masha Hessen photographer Vladimir Semin June 10, 2025 Retro score read: 25 min. In early June, the head of just Russians, Sergei Mironov, was not the first to invite Vladimir Putin to remove the moratorium on the death penalty in Russia since 1997. And although, according to surveys of recent years, the number of supporters of the highest punishment is reduced in society, more and more often various statesmen talk about the need to return it.