Russian National Guard director calls for freeing one ‘Moscow case’ defendant and adding years to another's prison sentence

Russian National Guard Director Viktor Zolotov has stated publicly that Pavel Ustinov, who was recently sentenced to 3.5 years for supposedly injuring a National Guardsman during his arrest, should be released from custody and sentenced to a year’s probation. 

Zolotov says he’d like to add Ustinov’s 3.5 years to a five-year prison sentence imposed on Vladislav Sinitsa, who was convicted in early September of extremism with the threat of deadly violence for what officials say was a call for reprisal attacks against the children of law-enforcement officers.