“As for the application for pardon, we will wait for the decision of the head of the Belarusian state,” Peskov said, answering the question whether the leaders of Russia and Belarus discussed the situation with the Russian woman.
He also noted that the Belarusian side should make a further decision on the Sapieha issue.
Earlier, lawyer Anton Gashinsky said that Sofya Sapega, sentenced to six years in a colony in Belarus, filed a petition for pardon.
In May, a court in Belarus sentenced Sapega to six years in prison.
The Russian woman was charged with a number of crimes, including inciting social hatred and discord, organizing violence and threatening to use it against an employee of the internal affairs bodies, interfering in the activities of an employee of the internal affairs bodies.