The president pardoned the blogger Valeria Cheklina, known as Larchek.
In July she was sentenced to five years of probation and a heavy fine for transferring more than two hundred and fifty million rubles abroad. She did not spend a single day in the colony. She needs amnesty to go abroad for treatment - she has cancer.
Showing mercy to a sick person is the right decision. I wish her recovery.
There are currently thousands of people with cancer, tuberculosis and HIV in detention centers and pre-trial colonies in Russia. Government Order No. 3 of 2011 forbids keeping seriously ill patients in detention - the courts have repeatedly refused to release them.
How is it going there with the forgiveness?