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колония (Khodorkovsky's business partner and associate Platon Lebedev, who was initially sent to a prison colony above the Arctic Circle, has also reportedly been transferred from the Russian capital. TG. A participant in a May 6 anti-Putin demonstration was sentenced Friday to four and a half years in a prison colony for fighting with riot police officers in the first adjudication of 18 similar cases that have sent a shudder through the city's new ranks of middle-class political activists. NYT Alexander Demidov) |
