Confession of the defender of Crimea: how a "normal girl" Poklonskaya made him a criminal. Poklonskaya again denies taking part in the trial against the pro-Russian activist

An interesting past of NATALIA POKLONSKY associated with the Orange Revolution.

In 2004-2005, during the first Maidan, VICTOR SAZHIN blocked the entrance to the Crimea in the Armyansk region for a car convoy with orange activists. There was a massive fight, as a result, Victor managed to organize a defense and the oranges were forced to leave, they failed to penetrate into the Crimea.

Some time later, when Yushchenko came to power, Viktor Sazhin was arrested and thrown for 2.5 months in a pre-trial detention center, charged with organizing a mass brawl and encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

At that moment, Viktor Yanukovych personally called Viktor, thanked him for his assistance and promised to help (did not help).

The most interesting thing is that Sazhin’s state prosecutor was Natalya Poklonskaya, who, according to him, drowned him in court, indignant: “how dare he encroach on the territorial integrity of Ukraine” and demanded the maximum term for Viktor. (There is a trace left on the Internet, the publication itself is no longer there, that Sazhin was drowned in 2005 when the current Member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation from Crimea Tsekov was on remand 23! RA)

Viktor Sazhin

As a result, a command came from Kyiv to release Viktor Sazhin, because if he was imprisoned, he could turn into an icon, which was extremely unfavorable for the orange occupation regime. Now Natalya Poklonskaya is considered almost a hero, although during the Crimean spring of 2014, she did not take part and became the prosecutor of Crimea already when the GDP sent troops and it was clear to everyone that Crimea was de facto Russian, and the referendum was a legal formality.

Viktor Sazhin is ready to give an exclusive interview and provide case materials to journalists. All documents have been preserved, such as the court verdict, the names of the participants in the trial and the text of the state prosecution of Natalia Poklonskaya with her signature and seal. Victor was silent for a long time, finally decided. that people should know the truth. As Suvorov said, the truth and only the truth (c)

At different times, a whole constellation of generals received them from her: A. Kvashnin, Yu. Baluevsky, B. Gromov, S. Makarov, V. Shamanov, A. Korzhakov ... And also such famous people as D. Kozak, V. Churov, M. Men, V. Potanin.

Viktor Sazhin: “She has something flowing myrrh”

Crimean Viktor Sazhin was convicted in 2005 as a criminal for opposing the “Maidanites”. The prosecutor at the trial was the current State Duma deputy, “the pretty face of Crimea” Natalya Poklonskaya.

Viktor told us what he thinks about Ms. Poklonskaya, about the true and fake participants in the "Crimean Spring" and about why he is offended by the state.

Three years ago it was also spring here.

Early Crimean spring, which has become history. On March 16, in a general referendum, the peninsula almost unanimously voted in favor of reunification with Russia.

I also remember those March days in the Crimea, goosebumps ran down my skin when the mass of people on the main square of Simferopol chanted in unison: “Crimea is Russia!”

You can tell anything about that time, and the further, the more, probably, there will be heroes and truths, as well as illusions lost forever.

Viktor Sazhin, 34, lives in Kerch.

In February 2014, it was Viktor Sazhin who hung the first Russian flag on the building of the city administration of Kerch.

However, Victor became famous not only for this. And the unexpectedly discovered connection with Natalia Poklonskaya, now a State Duma deputy, in the recent past - the head of the prosecutor's office of the peninsula, who, as they say, was not afraid to take this post in those days when harsh men fled in different directions.

The paths of Victor and Natalia first crossed nine years earlier, in the courtroom...

Is it the same Natalya?

Their paths crossed in December 2005 in the hall of the city court of the city of Armyansk, Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Young, 23-year-old Viktor Sazhin was a pro-Russian activist tried by the Ukrainian authorities for this. And the young (only two years older) Natalya Poklonskaya is the state prosecutor in his criminal case. From the Ukrainian side.

You know, when our local journalists unearthed all this, I was very surprised. I don't remember her at all. That is, I remember that I had three prosecutors at the trial, by the way, all women, and one, the very last, a girl, red-haired, thin, in a turtleneck. She was so modest, she read out the accusation in a boring, monotonous voice, - says Viktor Sazhin. - The only thing that stuck in my memory was how she, all in jewels, came to the courtroom, on each finger a gold ring, or even two, a gold chain two fingers thick, even the lads did not wear such. But I don’t remember her face at all, and, to be honest, I don’t even remember her last name.

- And how did you know that this is the same Natalya?

Yes, I didn't know. For me, all this is in the past. I even lost my sentence somewhere. In all the years that have passed since the trial, I have never needed him.

Then one of my subscribers sent me an electronic copy on the social network. Well, he threw it off and threw it off.

Then Crimean journalists unexpectedly turned to me to tell me about those events, and in the end they suddenly ask: “What about Poklonskaya?” "What Poklonskaya?" “Well, your public prosecutor, Ukrainian prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, who demanded seven and a half years for you! Because you are for Russia and against Ukraine.”

And I have nothing to answer ... Although yes, the document really says: public prosecutor Poklonskaya N.V. But I honestly don't remember her.

“They took off the laces, belt and sent to the temporary detention facility”

Piles of Crimean newspapers of that time. Full page publications. “For that guy”, “Stop the witch hunt”, “Yushchenko is not heard in the localities”. And it's all about him - Viktor Sazhin. In his youth, he was professionally involved in sports. In the army he served in the special forces. He guarded President Kuchma, but not in a personal, but in the outer ring of protection. “I saw power up close and in its most “unflattering” manifestations, so I have no illusions about this,” Viktor now states. He says that he has always been a Russian patriot, but where to go when his mother and father are Russians, and all relatives live on the other side of the sea, in the Kuban.

In 2004, if you remember, the first Maidan, the “Orange Revolution”, took place in Kyiv, when Viktor Yanukovych won the elections, and then he was replaced by Viktor Yushchenko.

Viktor Sazhin.

We all supported Yanukovych in Crimea, because this is Crimea. I now think that was the first call when he gave up, retreated, showed his weak character and gave the presidential chair to another, but at that moment we were like one for him, - says Victor. - We received information that the Druzhba road train is moving from Kyiv towards the peninsula, the participants of the Maidan ride in it, all stoned to teach us how to live. They have already quite successfully raked people in Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk for this and went here for the same.

- They say that three hundred of your guys from Kerch blocked the way for the Maidanites.

What three hundred! There were several thousand of us, no less. We went to the Kherson-Simferopol highway and blocked it completely. As a result, when they did arrive, in a column of cars, buses, limousines, with their orange symbols, with American flags, we "greeted them with bread and salt." This is a narrow two-lane road, a ditch on one side and the other, they had nowhere to go. Three of the most important people in orange scarves came out to talk to us, but the dialogue did not work. They showered us with oranges they had brought with them. And we just beat them.

- And who nailed whom?

We. I don't refuse. The cars flew into a ditch - and away we go ... In short, they were not allowed to enter the Crimea along this road.

- And why the criminal case was opened only against you? And why so late - a year later?

I must have been chosen as some kind of scapegoat. A year passed, Yushchenko nevertheless became president, I moved to live in Simferopol, worked in a mobile phone salon, went up the career ladder, met a girl - not only changed my political views, but calmed down.

And suddenly the investigator, a major, appears and says that they have been looking for me for more than two months and that, it turns out, I am on the run. Charged. Seven volumes of the criminal case. There are photographs where I am in all poses: with the Russian flag, I beat the Maydanovites in the face - in short, a complete evidence base, the organization of mass riots and malicious hooliganism - up to fifteen years.

- But you weren't taken into custody right away...

Yes, I myself came to the court of the city of Armyansk. It is three hundred kilometers from Kerch. The first referee was a young guy, I knew him a little, we crossed paths a couple of times in the gym, on this basis he immediately recused himself, said that we were not only familiar with him, but even were on friendly terms - apparently, he did not want to get into all this .

I was taken into custody. They took off the laces, belt and sent to the temporary detention center. The temporary detention center, like the police, in Armyansk was located in a former hostel on the first floor, nine people in a closet, and only two boxes. In one - tuberculosis patients, in the other - homeless people. So there wasn't much to choose from. Although the cellmates turned out to be normal guys, they only asked to sit away from them and not eat from the same dishes ...

A week later, the whole Crimea knew about Viktor Sazhin.

“They would say - to plant, I would have planted”

- A week later, the whole Crimea already knew about you?

Journalists raised kipesh, friends, comrades-in-arms. Reporters intercepted a note to my grandmother, where I write that it is damp and dark in our cell, and they rang out that I had suicidal thoughts. The only thing was that I was offered to move to a pre-trial detention center, where I could at least wash myself and watch TV. And the zeks looked after me, so that God forbid I didn’t hang myself. You can't prove it to anyone...

- The newspapers wrote that you were dissatisfied with your lawyer ...

I think it was a unique case when a lawyer drowned his client even more than the prosecutor. I was told that this would be better for me. If I serve my time in full, they say, I will emerge as a hero, an icon of the revolution and the fight against the Yushchenko regime. “Vitya, we will make a deputy out of you,” Sergey Pavlovich Tsekov promised me then.

- Who is the senator from Crimea now?

He is. But I replied that before becoming a deputy, I would become a prisoner and that I did not want the fate of a hero, but I wanted to go home.

- What about glory?

Lenin, exile and all that, I know, I read ... You know, it's very good to promote yourself at someone else's expense, and then in all directions. All the same people who promised to make an idol out of me, when after my release they really needed their help, immediately forgot about their words. And I had a criminal record, no job, no money.

- So you don’t think that prosecutor Poklonskaya is to blame for your verdict?

No. She was just doing her job. I remember that the red-haired one was the kindest of the three prosecutors ... What claims can I have against her? She is not my friend, not my comrade, not my sister. They would say - to plant, would plant.

But, I want to note, apparently, in Kiev they understood that it was not worth molding a martyr out of me, as a result, instead of more than seven years, I received only 2.5 months already incarcerated. So the prosecutor did not drown me. I was released immediately after sentencing. Not as a hero, but as an ordinary criminal.

- They write that this verdict broke your life.

To break it down, I don't think so. On the contrary, the whole of Crimea recognized me, rallies were held in my defense, newspapers wrote. But I really could not get a job for a long time, I had to forget about a career in the authorities, about entering the law school.

Under Yanukovych, he tried to become a deputy, but nothing came of it either, everything was divided among the Party of Regions. In 2010, he headed the Russian Unity organization in Kerch, got married and had a child.

“If you want to do something, then organize a concert with girls in kokoshniks”

And then the “Russian spring” came.

This is a video from Kerch, taken on YouTube. The confused mayor of the city, Oleg Osadchy, is trying with all his might to maintain the old order: “It’s too early to hang the Russian flag, it will still fall into place, let’s calmly disperse. What do you need? There is water at home, there is light, no one is oppressing anyone.”

And waves of people, not hearing anything, tearing apart the already lowered Ukrainian banner. "Russia, Russia, Russia!"

Yes, on February 23, 2014, we were the first in Crimea to remove the Ukrainian flag from the flagpole in front of the Kerch City Council and hoist the Russian flag in its place,” Viktor Sazhin continues. - I remember that the Sochi Olympics were on TV, and we understood that if help from Russia did not come, then we would all be screwed. They were going to send families to relatives, wives, children, and themselves sit down in the Kerch quarries with weapons and not give up.

- Do you think that a second Donbass could begin in Crimea?

I think that in any other scenario, the fate of Donbass awaited us. We are only two hours away from the Ukrainian Mariupol by sea. And we have the whole city-supporters of Russia. Even the Kerch Crimean Tatars are also all ours, Russians.

There were rumors that buses from Kyiv were coming again, only “charged” no longer with oranges. We kept about 700 people in reserve, went on patrols, kept order in the city as best we could, about 4 thousand were only sympathizers, women, old people, teenagers. It now seems as if it could not be otherwise, but then we were looking for every opportunity to announce: Russia, we are here, we are with you, please do not leave us. We sincerely dreamed that Moscow would dig up the isthmus and take us to Russia. At least Kerch. We are still at the very border.

Sentence.

I called Sergei Aksenov for advice, but he was very busy, his assistant Yevgenia Dobrynya answered the phone, I said that we were gathering self-defense units. She answered me that Sergei Valeryevich might not like it. Sergei Tsekov called another of our comrades and also asked them not to rush the situation with self-defense: they say, if you want to do something, then organize a concert with girls in kokoshniks, we will send you kokoshniks, - something like this was the conversation.

- Is this some kind of joke?

No, in Sevastopol, a similar festival began then. There girls danced with kokoshniks. No one knew what to do, because it was not clear what would happen tomorrow. And the kokoshniks, although for Russia, are quite harmless.

At that time, we cut off communication with Simferopol, because we could not expect help from them. And on February 23, after we hung out the Russian flag, some people from the mainland unexpectedly arrived in Kerch. They worked quickly and without firing a shot.

So Kerch became Russian. The Cossacks also came in, and we settled them in sanatoriums, the next morning they gathered and went to Chongar and Armyansk, bordering Ukraine, to patrol there.

Our Kerch businessmen helped with food and accommodation. We organized several KamAZ trucks with canned food and pasta. Self-defense of the city of Kerch was at a combat post until the March referendum. 98 percent were in favor of joining, people went in droves to vote for Russia, the disabled, the elderly - everything.

- Remember the first day after joining?

It's vague. There was complete euphoria. There is only a bright future ahead, we won, cheers, cheers ... And then we found out that we had nothing to do with it at all.

“Even women have medals hanging from evening dresses, bitter and ashamed”

Victor and I are sitting in a cafe. At the next table, apparently, someone's birth is loudly celebrated. "Louboutins" is replaced by the ancient Verka Serduchka. “Ukraine has not died yet,” the birthday girl voices along with the singer.

“Well, he sings well, I like it,” Victor listens. We continue the conversation.

Well, then the heroes of the Kerch self-defense found out that they had nothing to do with it at all. And the main thing is not the video on YouTube with the tricolor flag raised, it is not proof at all. Proof - proximity to the top.

As it turned out, in Simferopol they already compiled lists of other Kerch “militias”, more real ones ... Who are these people? Where did they float from? I don't know.

But it is they who now sit in all the presidiums, concerts and receptions are organized for them in honor of the “Crimean spring”, where they are allowed only by invitation, they even have medals hanging from women’s evening dresses, it’s bitter and shameful to look at.

Don’t think, I didn’t give up, I wrote to the President’s website seven times to sort out this situation, who and what was doing here in the spring of 2014, I’m not a naive boy, I understand that Putin is unlikely to read this himself, but maybe , at least someone will try to figure out what kind of mummers clung to our victory ...

They have their own regiment, headquarters, even the union of veterans already. Professional "Crimean militias" - that's what they call it. But now they are on horseback, and if something happens again, the trace will get cold.

- You don't have any medals, do you?

And I have. “For the Defense of Crimea” and a badge, which I am especially proud of, “For Service and Loyalty”. Recently they offered to buy one award, for only 2000 rubles. Very honorable. But I refused. It's dishonest and vile.

Three years ago, I interviewed the head of the republic, Sergei Aksyonov, and asked him a question: how is it that all the people in your team are from the same, former Ukraine, only instead of the Party of Regions, they became members of United Russia.

And he answered me: people have the right to be sincerely mistaken, and then sincerely change their views. The same Natalia Poklonskaya was mistaken, being a Ukrainian state prosecutor, but now she is a State Duma deputy, a sincere admirer of Nicholas II.

Yes, not ... a normal girl ... She has something streaming myrrh. I have no complaints about her. But there is no forgiveness for those who turned our “Crimean spring” into something and for their own good. The national flags are different, but the people in the chairs are the same. In our last parliamentary elections, only five percent of all citizens came to vote, because the people of Kerch see all this and feel that little has changed in this sense.

- Probably, this is the misfortune of all revolutions, that they are made by romantics, and others use the fruits.

But that's wrong! It shouldn't be like that! I remember how those people from Moscow who came here to help, leaving, dropped a strange phrase: wait, soon they will reward the uninvolved and punish the innocent, - that’s how it ended up. It is also not clear to me whether the conviction has been expunged or whether I have been acquitted. Thank God that everything else ended without bloodshed. I am sure that Crimea would not have remained under Ukraine in any case. Russia is ours, and this is the main thing. But it's a shame for the state all the same.

P.S. Crimean journalists contacted Natalya Poklonskaya and asked to comment on this story, she replied that for so many years of work she had so many cases and defendants that she was simply not able to remember everyone.

Former prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea, State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya participated as a state prosecutor in the trial of two pro-Russian activists in 2005, journalists of the Note website say. For one of the defendants, she demanded 7.5 years in prison for trying to stop a motorcade with Maidan activists traveling to Crimea during the Orange Revolution.

The fact that Natalya Poklonskaya, known for her Russian patriotism, before the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation, may have persecuted pro-Russian activists in the republic, the Note website writes. At the disposal of journalists was the text of the court verdict.

According to this document, a certain Poklonskaya N.V. was a public prosecutor in the case of Viktor Sazhin and Alexander Kursakov. Both were activists of the Russian community. According to Sazhin himself, on December 17, 2004, he and 300 other local residents, having learned that the Druzhba road train with Maidan participants was moving to Crimea, went to the Kherson-Simferopol highway near the Armyansk bus station to prevent the convoy from entering Crimea.

They were inadequate, with glassy eyes. They threw oranges at people, a verbal skirmish began. I had the imprudence to shout “We are with Russia, we will not tolerate Americans here!”, and they tried to run over me with a car.

The Druzhba convoy did not pass through Armyansk and returned back.

After some time, Sazhin and Kursakov were arrested for violating public order and ended up in the court of the city of Armyansk. Natalya Poklonskaya at that time worked as an assistant to the prosecutor of the Krasnogvardeisky district of Crimea, and it can be assumed that Poklonskaya N.V., indicated in the verdict, is exactly her.

According to the documents, as the state prosecutor at the trial, Poklonskaya demanded 7.5 years in prison for Sazhin for separatism. The court considered such a punishment too cruel and awarded him 2.5 months of arrest for participating in the riots. Kursakov got off with a fine.

However, both still have outstanding criminal records. Because of the verdict, Sazhin lost his job and still, despite the fact that the government has changed, he has not been rehabilitated.

The journalists turned to Poklonskaya herself for a comment, but she said that she did not remember such a case, since she had “probably more cases than you have written articles.” When asked if it was true that she insisted on a 7.5-year sentence for anti-Maidan Sazhin, she answered in the negative.

Don't talk nonsense.

Natalia Poklonskaya was appointed Prosecutor General of the Republic of Crimea on March 11, 2015. In June of the same year. In September 2016, she was elected to the State Duma from Crimea, joining United Russia.

Poklonskaya was noted for her patriotic civic activity. Social networks drew attention to her participation in the action "Immortal Regiment" on May 9, 2016, when she went to the procession with a portrait of Nicholas II instead of a portrait of a front-line relative.

28.06.2017 13:18

State Duma deputy and former Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya sent a response to the Notes 4 months later to a request for information on the case of Viktor Sazhin. She reports that she was not the state prosecutor in the case of a pro-Russian activist who stopped a motorcade with Ukrainian radicals at the entrance to Crimea in 2004 and was convicted for this in Ukraine. Poklonskaya demands a refutation of our material. The deputy does not provide a copy of the court verdict to which she refers.

“I inform you that during my work in the prosecutor's office, I did not take part in this criminal process,” she writes. - According to the information of the Armenian City Court of the Republic of Crimea, in 2005 the Armenian City Court had criminal case No. 1-83/2005 in its proceedings. The guilty verdict in this case was passed by the court not on 12/16/2005, as indicated in the publication of your information portal, but on 11/23/2005. No other court decisions were issued in the criminal case. In the copy of the court verdict in this case, provided to my information request, I am not listed as the public prosecutor, but a completely different person.

Based on this, Natalya Poklonskaya reports that the Notes portal has disseminated information that does not correspond to reality and discredits her honor and business reputation, and asks to publish a refutation.

The PDF file received by the editor is the image that we present below.

Recall that in March of this year, "Notes" published the material "Red-haired girl, all in gold."

Then a copy of the verdict of the City Court of Armyansk was at the disposal of the portal. According to the document, in 2005 the public prosecutor N. V. Poklonskaya (according to her official biography, at that time Natalya Poklonskaya worked as an assistant prosecutor of the Krasnogvardeisky district of Crimea) spoke at a trial against local pro-Russian activists and supporters of Viktor Yanukovych.

In 2004, after the first Maidan, they did not allow a motorcade of members of the Orange Revolution and supporters of Viktor Yushchenko to enter Crimea, and they also shouted pro-Russian slogans. According to one of the then defendants, Viktor Sazhin, the state prosecutor demanded that he be imprisoned for 7.5 years on charges of organizing an illegal rally and hooliganism.

Then, when asked by Notes whether she confirmed what was stated in this paper, Natalya Poklonskaya noted that during her work she had as many cases as we probably did not have articles. “You should have remembered about the 95th,” Natalya Vladimirovna answered. “Do you know how many defendants I had?”

To a clarifying question whether she remembers how she demanded Sazhin 7.5 years in prison for participating in obstructing the passage of the “road train of friendship” of activists of the Orange Revolution to Crimea, the State Duma deputy replied: “Don’t talk nonsense.”

“If someone says something, then go and ask him, why are you calling me? - she said. “Make an official request, we’ll raise the documents, we’ll figure out what, where, when, we will demand materials from the prosecutor’s office — where, in what processes I took part as a public prosecutor ... I had so many defendants in a year that you probably had fewer articles” .

Despite the fact that the deputy did not provide our publication with any full information, a few hours after the publication, she gave us through publication on the Kryminform website, which is close to the government of Crimea. In response, Poklonskaya stated that from the end of 2004 to the beginning of 2006 she was on maternity leave, since in January 2005 she gave birth to a daughter, who is now 12 years old.

She did not voice such a version in an interview with Notes.

Viktor Sazhin, in response to this, once again stated to Notes that he “remembers the clothes” of the woman prosecutor accurately and distinctly. “There was a sweater and a lot of gold, curly red hair,” repeated Sazhin. - By the way, I have repeatedly participated in Ukrainian courts as a witness, and I have never seen the prosecutor's office in uniform. There was no particular dress code. It's only in movies or at super-official events." The fact that in the Ukrainian courts of Crimea, prosecutors, as a rule, did not burden themselves with wearing uniforms, is also said by other participants in the trials of those years.

The face of the “Russian spring” is a former Crimean prosecutor, and the current patriotic deputy of the State Duma, Natalia Poklonskaya, in 2005, as a state prosecutor, participated in the trial of two pro-Russian activists, the Note edition.

The journalists managed to “unearth” that back in 2005, the current Russian jingoistic patriot acted as a state prosecutor in the case of mass riots for which several pro-Russian activists were prosecuted. The riots broke out in the city of Armyansk when local pro-Russian activists blocked traffic for a convoy of Maidan activists traveling to Crimea during the Orange Revolution. For this, Poklonskaya demanded 7.5 years in prison (!) for Viktor Sazhin, one of the defendants in this case.

Judging by the text of the verdict, which was at the disposal of the journalists, it was the symbol of the “Russian Spring” and the State Duma deputy from United Russia N. Poklonskaya who was the public prosecutor in the case of Viktor Sazhin and Alexander Kursakov (there can hardly be such coincidences in place (it is known, that at that time she worked as an assistant to the prosecutor of the Krasnogvardeisky district of Crimea), time, name and surname.

According to Sazhin himself (who, like his then accomplice) was an activist of the Russian Community organization, on December 17, 2004, he and 300 other local residents, having learned that a convoy of the Druzhba motor rally with Maidan participants was arriving in Crimea, went to the track Kherson - Simferopol near the bus station of Armyansk, in order not to let the convoy into the Crimea. “I had the imprudence to shout “We are with Russia, we will not tolerate Americans here!”, And they tried to run me over with a car.”

As a result, the Druzhba convoy did not pass through Armyansk and returned back. After some time, Sazhin and Kursakov were arrested and sentenced to 2.5 months of arrest by the court of the city of Armyansk.

But the most interesting thing in this story is that Poklonskaya N.V., whose name as the state prosecutor at the trial is indicated in the verdict, demanded for Sazhin 7.5 years in prison for separatism. Once again: for separatism; seven and a half years

As a public prosecutor, Poklonskaya could release Sazhin on bail, the newspaper writes. But instead, he demands that he be given the maximum sentence: 7.5 years in prison.

Viktor Sazhin

Characteristically, the Ukrainian court turned out to be more humane than the future prominent member of United Russia and considered such a punishment to be excessively cruel, awarding Sazhin 2.5 months of arrest for participating in mass riots and released him in the courtroom, counting the time spent in the pre-trial detention center. Kursakov (his accomplice) got off with a fine. The curiosity of the situation lies in the fact that both (obviously already as citizens of the Russian Federation) still have an outstanding criminal record. The publication reports that because of the sentence Sazhin lost his job and so far, despite the fact that the government has changed, he has not been rehabilitated.

According to media reports, Poklonskaya herself does not recognize her participation in this process and calls the press reports "nonsense."

According to Notes journalists, after information about his case began to spread in the media and social networks, he began to receive threats in his address by phone.