All former security officials left the colony and planted drugs on the journalist Ivan Golonov. The Kirov-Chepetsky court of the Kirov region agreed to replace the sentence of the former deputy head of the drug control department of CJSC Moscow's internal administration Igor Liakhovet from imprisonment to hard labor. He spent a little more than 6 years out of 11.5 in a detention center and in a pre-trial settlement - after serving half of his sentence, he had the right to replace the part he did not serve. The decision, according to Kommersant, was made back in February, and at the end of March the regional court approved it approx. In 2023, the same court released the former activists Maxim Umatbaev, Akbar Sergleev and Denis Konovlov - after an appeal, they received between 4.5 and 7.5 years in prison. Ivan Golonov told Kommersant that he learned of the decision against Liakhovetz after the fact, since the court did not notify him of the hearing. The journalist also expressed regret that the defendants in the case did not "react in kind" and expressed the opinion that they were following someone's order after one of his publications "for the sake of the money". Medusa*'s former investigative journalist Ivan Golonov was arrested on June 6, 2019, the security forces allegedly found drugs in his backpack. After mass demonstrations in support of the journalist, he was placed under house arrest, and the case was closed in a short time with the right to rehabilitation. Already in December 2019, Vladimir Putin said that those responsible for the attempt to plant drugs in Golunov would be punished - a month later, the former security officials were arrested and charged with committing a crime to "improve the performance" of the department. *Foreign agent, unwanted organization.

All former security officials left the colony and planted drugs on the journalist Ivan Golonov. The Kirov-Chepetsky court of the Kirov region agreed to replace the sentence of the former deputy head of the drug control department of CJSC Moscow's internal administration Igor Liakhovet from imprisonment to hard labor. He spent a little more than 6 years out of 11.5 in a detention center and in a pre-trial settlement - after serving half of his sentence, he had the right to replace the part he did not serve. The decision, according to Kommersant, was made back in February, and at the end of March the regional court approved it approx. In 2023, the same court released the former activists Maxim Umatbaev, Akbar Sergleev and Denis Konovlov - after an appeal, they received between 4.5 and 7.5 years in prison. Ivan Golonov told Kommersant that he learned of the decision against Liakhovetz after the fact, since the court did not notify him of the hearing. The journalist also expressed regret that the defendants in the case did not "react in kind" and expressed the opinion that they were following someone's order after one of his publications "for the sake of the money". Medusa*'s former investigative journalist Ivan Golonov was arrested on June 6, 2019, the security forces allegedly found drugs in his backpack. After mass demonstrations in support of the journalist, he was placed under house arrest, and the case was closed in a short time with the right to rehabilitation. Already in December 2019, Vladimir Putin said that those responsible for the attempt to plant drugs in Golunov would be punished - a month later, the former security officials were arrested and charged with committing a crime to "improve the performance" of the department. *Foreign agent, unwanted organization.