“We immediately went to the office and filed a brief appeal,” Nikiforova was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
On September 5, the Moscow City Court sentenced Safronov to 22 years in a strict regime colony in the case of treason, in addition, the man was fined 500 thousand rubles and two years of restriction of freedom after serving his sentence.
An adviser to the head of Roskosmos, a former journalist for Kommersant and Vedomosti, was detained in July 2020.