A murdering professor at Vladimir Putin’s former college lives in a ‘luxurious’ jail, it has emerged, whereas the warmonger’s main political foe is locked up 24/7 in a ‘concrete kennel’, highlighting the warped nature of the Russian justice system.
Navy historian and internationally-acclaimed Napoleon professional Oleg Sokolov, 66, shot and beheaded his lover Anastasia Yeschenko, 24, throwing her severed physique components within the Moika River in St Petersburg.
Now in a ‘strict regime jail’ in his house metropolis, he has a library, and has been put accountable for educating different inmates and is allowed to proceed his analysis.
On a 12 yr sentence, he can loosen up by a hearth and luxuriate in billiards in a ‘privileged’ jail, say experiences – and his lawyer says he has ‘no complaints’ about circumstances in a jail with marble tiles.
Navy historian and internationally-acclaimed Napoleon professional Oleg Sokolov, 66, shot and beheaded his pupil lover
Anastasia Yeschenko, 24, was killed by Sokolov who threw her severed physique components within the Moika River in St Petersburg
Sokolov – who taught at St Petersburg [formerly Leningrad] State College, Putin’s alma mater, the place his sufferer was a PhD pupil – is believed to have associates among the many Russian elite regardless of his horrific crime.
A fan of French historical past who dressed up for Napoleonic reenactments along with his homicide sufferer, Sokolov had lectured on the Sorbonne and held France’s distinguished Legion of Honour.
After taking pictures lifeless the scholar and earlier than butchering her physique, he held a cognac social gathering with associates as her corpse was stashed below a mattress within the subsequent room.
An ‘exhausted’ Sokolov suspected her of dishonest on him, and have become violent when she informed him she meant to go to a pal’s party, based on proof within the trial.
He was caught when he was discovered within the icy water of the Moika River attempting to get rid of his lover’s arms – chopped off on the shoulder – which had been in his backpack.
His sufferer’s severed head was discovered wrapped in an IKEA plastic bag in his plush residence, whereas her dismembered torso and legs had been all dredged from the river.
She had enraged him by ‘insulting’ his daughters by a earlier relationship, he mentioned.
The ‘penal colony’ the place Sokolov is being held comes full with a hearth, marble tiling, televisions and a snooker desk
Sokolov’s jail is fitted with a library so the historian can proceed his analysis
Sokolov has been visited by a human rights commissioner to test on his circumstances in penal colony No. 6 in St Petersburg, the place the circumstances are nearer to these one would anticipate finding in a lodge
Sokolov is pictured dressed as Napoleon. The historian attended a number of historic reenactments
Yeschenko’s severed head was discovered wrapped in an IKEA plastic bag in Sokolov’s plush residence
Sokolov has been visited by a human rights commissioner to test on his circumstances in penal colony No. 6 in St Petersburg.
Navalny, in distinction, is incarcerated in Melekhovo, Vladimir area, one of the infamous jails in Russia.
The anti-corruption campaigner, 46, is in jail solely as a result of he opposes Putin, based on his supporters and Western governments.
He’s serving an 11-and-a-half yr sentence in jail for parole violations, fraud and contempt of court docket prices broadly considered trumped up as a consequence of political motivations.
He’s presently in his ninth interval in a punishment cell in six months, and has been banned from seeing his household.
This solitary cell from hell is likened to a ‘concrete kennel’.
It’s in a ‘torture’ jail nowhere close to his house that’s infamous for sexual violence in opposition to male inmates.
Alexei Navalny, certainly one of Putin’s main political opponents and anti-corruption campaigners, is pictured being manhandled by Russian police
Navalny is seen in a defendant’s cage in Moscow
This dank jail cell, shared on social media by Navalny’s lawyer, present the horrendous circumstances wherein he has been held
Navalny’s lawyer, who usually communicates on behalf of Putin’s incarcerated political opponent, mentioned lately for her shopper: ‘My newest break from the punishment cell did not final lengthy – precisely someday….
‘This time I bought 12 days for ”utilizing the phrase f*** (sorry) in a dialog with a cellmate”.’
The punishment was decreed by foul-mouthed warders, he mentioned.
Earlier he was put in a punishment cell with an imprisoned ‘homeless tramp’ who has private hygiene issues.
The cell is 10ft by 6 ft 6 inches with a hole-in-the-floor bathroom.
He described the expertise as ‘insufferable’.
Putin is alleged to take an energetic curiosity in humiliating the jailed anti-corruption campaigner and opposition chief who needs to oust him from the Kremlin.
