“The pardon procedure begins with the personal request of the convict,” said a letter from the Kremlin to Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov’s mother.
Published on the website Hromadske.ua on Wednesday, the letter to Lyudmila Sentsov rejected her request for a pardon for her son, who in August 2015 was sentenced to 20 years in a Russian jail north of the Arctic Circle.
