Vladislav Kanyus brutally killed his ex-girlfriend Vera Pekhteleva, torturing, suffocating and stabbing her. In July 2022, he got a 17-year prison sentence. Pekhteleva’s mother is in shock that her daughter’s murderer was pardoned in exchange for taking up arms in Ukraine.
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The shocking release and subsequent deployment of convicted murderer Vladislav Kanyus to the front lines in Ukraine, under President Putin's controversial policy, underscores the deep flaws and cynical attitudes within Russia's judicial and penal systems, leaving victims' families like the Pekhtelevas grappling with a profound sense of injustice and fear.
To avoid calling another controversial mobilization and risk angering the public ahead of presidential elections next year, Russia's military has relied increasingly on prison recruitment to bolster its ranks.
A man convicted in the 2006 killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya received a presidential pardon after he did a stint fighting in Ukraine, his lawyer said. Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2014 for his role as an accomplice in the killling of Politkovskaya, 48. She worked for the […]