Russia re-evaluates court sentencing and amnesties in light of deplorable prison conditions and spreading diseaseby Ana Uzelac MOSCOW–Back in the early 1980s, when Valery Abramkin was a political prisoner, the timing and the size of amnesties were one of the state’s closely kept secrets. The decisions were always made on the top party level, and the news would first reach […]
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