Pavel Zelensky is serving his sentence in the Zelenograd colony-settlement.

During the conversation with the PMC members who visited the institution, he stated that he repented.

The representative of the administration of the colony-settlement added that the former videographer "took the path of correction."

Zelensky told the members of the commission that for the first nine months he was in the Tula correctional colony No. 2, then the regime was relaxed for him.

“I immediately admitted my guilt and showed active remorse, cooperated with the investigation, and after nine months in a general regime colony, I was transferred here, to a colony-settlement.

Here, with other convicts, I make wall newspapers, posters for the holidays, shoot video clips about the life of the colony-settlement, and one such video was sent to the All-Russian Film Festival “Nadezhda”, there were interviews with convicts about plans for the future, about hopes for a new life, ” - Melnikov quoted Zelensky, who also leads a circle of correspondents.

The former operator does not receive a salary for this work.

Zelensky has no complaints about the conditions of detention.

Recently he had a long meeting with his wife and children living in the suburbs.

“It is much easier for my family to visit me here than in Tula,” added the convict, who has 3.5 months left before the end of his term.

Pavel Zelensky was detained in January 2021.

He was charged with incitement to extremism because of a comment on social networks about the suicide of Nizhny Novgorod journalist Irina Slavina near the building of the regional police department.

He was placed in a pre-trial detention center, and in February the measure of restraint was reduced to house arrest.

In April 2021, Zelensky was sentenced to two years in prison, but the Moscow City Court in June of the same year reduced the sentence to one year and 11 months.

* The Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) is included in the register of NGOs acting as a foreign agent, by decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 09.10.2019.

The organization was recognized as extremist, its activities are prohibited on the territory of Russia by the decision of the Moscow City Court of 06/09/2021.