Law enforcers allow Vera Savchenko to leave Russia

The decision to ban Vera Savchenko's departure from Russia in the context of her federal search has been cancelled.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in the evening on April 27, at the Russian-Ukrainian border, an attempt was made to detain Vera Savchenko, a sister of the convicted Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. FSB officers took away Vera's passport. After the incident, the woman left the checkpoint in a car with Ukrainian diplomatic number plates and drove to Rostov-on-Don. Dmitry Kuleba, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine at the Council of Europe, said that Vera Savchenko had been really put on the Russian federal wanted list for insulting a judge in Chechnya.

The judge of the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic, who considered the criminal case against the citizens of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, found the behaviour of Vera Savchenko, who acted as the public defender at that trial disrespectful to the court; and an administrative protocol was drawn up against her. In November 2015, Nadezhda Savchenko's advocate Mark Feigin said that a criminal case had been initiated against Vera.

"The decision to restrict Vera Savchenko's departure from Russia in connection with the federal search for her has been cancelled; and in the next few hours she would be able to leave Russia," the TASS quotes a law enforcement source.

Vera Savchenko has also confirmed her intention to leave Russia in the nearest future.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.