Prison sentence over a money transfer to an ex-wife, release from remand detention, deportation for prayer overturned: Political persecution news
This translation was made by AI A court in St Petersburg sentenced Mikhail Loshchinin to 16 years in a high-security penal colony on charges of state treason. According to the investigation, the case was triggered by his correspondence with his ex-girlfriend from Ukraine and a money transfer to her. Loshchinin was detained at the border in Pskov Region when travelling to Russia to visit his ill father.