Lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky, who represented the interests of Evgenia Khasis, told "Mediazona"* that the information about her release "does not correspond to reality." Another lawyer, Alexey Pershin, said that he learned about Khasis's release "from telegram channels," and he was not informed about her release from the colony.
As calculated by "Mediazona," according to the court's decision, taking into account the deduction of the term in the pre-trial detention center and the reduction of the total imprisonment time, Khasis should be released no earlier than the end of November 2025.
Freelance correspondent for "Novaya Gazeta" Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov were shot on January 19, 2009, in the center of Moscow, when they were returning from a press conference dedicated to the fate of one of the antifascists. According to the investigation, one of the leaders of the Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN) Nikita Tikhonov and his common-law wife Evgenia Khasis committed the murder in retaliation for Markelov's antifascist activities. In 2011, the court sentenced Tikhonov to life imprisonment, and Khasis to 18 years in a colony; in 2022, the Supreme Court reduced her sentence to 17 years.
* Recognized in Russia as a "foreign agent."