The terminally ill former Yukos executive Vasily Alexanyan has finally been released from custody after paying a punitively expensive $1.8 million bail bond. Read more about the medical blackmail of Alexanyan here, here, and here, and also see the important opinion articles in RIA Novosti in support of leniency on political prisoners.
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So basically, they let him out to get medical treatment that he can no longer afford because of his bail.Nice. Russia appears to be governed by sadists.
I have a bad memory; was it Vasily Alexanyan or Svetlana Bakhmina that LaR didn’t want released because it would send a wrong signal that Russia’s good?(to which James said something like, “I think you’re the only person that doesn’t want him/her released !”(I believe she cited an MLK letter that said that moderates are more troublesome than radicals)