After signing a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense in March 2024, Eskerkhanov was pardoned and released from the penal colony. He was sent to one of the units located on the Ukrainian front.
Nemtsov, who held the position of deputy prime minister in one of the governments of the former president Boris Yeltsin, was murdered on February 27, 2015 shortly before midnight when he was walking on the Great Bridge over the Moscow River near the Kremlin.
Eskerkhanov was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his participation in Nemtsov’s murder. The rest of those convicted in the case of Nemtsov’s murder are still in prison because they refused to sign the contract with the Ministry of Defense, reports the news agency “Reuters”.
Nemtsov’s former press representative Ilya Yashin, who was released last week in a prisoner exchange between Russia, Belarus, the United States and several European countries, called Eskerkhanov’s release from prison a disgrace to Nemtsov’s memory.
After Russia’s repeated invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of Russian prisoners have agreed to join the Russian army, taking advantage of the amnesty offer to those who survive the front.
The recruitment of prisoners was initially initiated by the “Wagner” mercenary gang, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash in August 2023 after an unsuccessful uprising against the Russian military leadership.
2024-08-14 02:46:50