Ukrainian film director, political prisoner Oleg Sentsov cannot be pardoned on request grounds of General Secretary of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland.
“You know that such a request cannot constitute grounds for some actions pursuant to the Russian legislation. You know what kind of pardoning procedure we have in the Russian Federation,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists, TASS news agency reports.
When asked if there is any progress in the issue of Sentsov’s liberation, the Kremlin’s representative said: “There is no news and progress”.
