Baltic Fleet military court sentences 68-year-old Russian Igor Odintsov to six years in a strict-regime colony

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The Baltic Fleet Military Court has sentenced 68-year-old Russian citizen Igor Odintsov to six years in a strict-regime penal colony. In September, he swam from Kaliningrad Oblast to Lithuania along the Neman River and asked for political asylum, but Lithuanian border guards returned him to Russia.

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A Russian man swam from Kaliningrad to Lithuania to ask for asylum. He was returned to Russia, where he received six years in prison

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Odintsov asked for asylum in Lithuania and was returned to Russia.

The border worked like a punishment line.