Valeria Chekalina thanked Putin for the pardon.
She posted a thank you video on her Instagram.
I want to thank you on behalf of my entire family, and on my behalf, for your kindness. I was forgiven for that. Actually, it's not just forgiveness. That means more to me. This means the opportunity to live, the opportunity to be close to my loved ones. Thank you very much. "Then begins the most important fight in my life - the fight for life, against cancer, in which I will win," Cheklina said.
The president's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that Putin "is guided solely by considerations of humanity."
"It is clear that the economic damage to the country was very great. But at the same time it was taken into account, first of all, that we are talking about a woman who is terminally ill, and also has minor children, which became the reason for making such a decision," the Kremlin representative explained.