Halya Coynash: Russia flouts its own Supreme Court to revenge Ukrainian Maidan activist
Like all texts about Ukrainians in Russian court hearings, this one must begin with 'as expected'. The decision is no less galling for being predictable, since the court in Kirov on June 16 ignored not only the fact that Russia is illegally holding Oleksandr Kostenko in prison, but the Russian Supreme Court's guidelines on parole. Nothing, it seems, matters if the order has come to convict a person and then make sure he serves the sentence to the end.