Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an amnesty order for business woman and blogger Valeria Cheklina (Lerchek). According to the document, she was released from the sentence imposed in July 2026, and her criminal record was also cleared, Izvestia writes. Previously, the court sentenced Cheklin to five years of probation and a fine of 763.6 million rubles in the case of illegally withdrawing forged documents of more than 250 million rubles to the United Arab Emirates. According to Interfax, the decision was made for humanitarian reasons, as she is undergoing cancer treatment.