Mikhail Trepashkin freed, Part 1 By Grigory Pasko, journalist On 30 November, former FSB RF officer Mikhail Trepashkin was released from a general regime penal colony in Nizhny Tagil. He had been sentenced on 19 May 2004 by the Moscow District Military Court for divulging a state secret and sentenced to four years of deprivation of liberty with the serving of punishment in a colony-settlement [Russia’s version of “minimum security”—Trans.]. Immediately after his release, Trepashkin declared that he intends to strive for the reconsideration of his case. “I want specifically to reconsider the verdict, and not to dismiss the case. When there will be a repeat consideration, it will become immediately understandable that the criminal case has been fabricated”, he clarified.