Moscow has offered Washington to exchange the convicted in the US of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko at several American citizens imprisoned in Russia. About this newspaper “Izvestia».
This information is contained in a letter from the administration of the Russian president received a pilot’s mother, Lyubov Yaroshenko. It is noted that at the moment of the American citizens – 13, three of whom, including Gennady Klotsman convicted in Russia in December of 2011 for 10 years, had applied for a transfer to the United States on the basis of the Council of Europe Convention, 1983
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19:43 December 29, 2015
At the same time, Washington informed of Moscow’s intentions, but the American side reaction still remained negative.
In Washington’s view, is not subject to exchange Yaroshenko. Deputy Victoria Nuland secretary of state at a meeting in the Russian Foreign Ministry on May 18 just made it clear that he must sit as a warning to other Russians, falling into the hands of US law enforcement agencies, according to a document referring to the response received from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The aim of this policy, as noted, the example obtained Yaroshenko for the intransigence of a huge life to persuade the Russians to confess guilt in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Foreign Ministry says “the unacceptable nature of the arrest of a Russian citizen and the application thereto of physical or psychological effects. ” According to the document, the Russian side put forward demands for the provision of necessary medical assistance and the prompt issuance of Yaroshenko.
Konstantin Yaroshenko, who is serving in the US 20-year prison sentence for conspiracy to smuggle drugs, was sentenced by a US court September 7, 2011 . In the US, he was brought from Liberia, where he was arrested on May 28, 2010-th. It operates under the guise of an agent of the US Federal department for combating drug trafficking allegedly caught in a pilot criminal intent to transport a large consignment of cocaine.
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