The Double Sting - The New Yorker
The line for lawyers and family members to get into Lefortovo prison starts to form around five in the morning. The building, on a quiet street just east of Moscow’s Third Ring Road, now officially belongs to the Ministry of Justice, but it’s still informally known as the prison of the F. S. B. , a successor agency to the K. G. B. Early on June 16, 2014,... Kolesnikov’s lawyer, Sergei Chizhikov, arrived around dawn and stood in line for several hours. When Chizhikov finally made it to an interrogation room on the Investigative Committee’s sixth floor, he found Kolesnikov seated at a table with an investigator and two guards. Kolesnikov, who was thirty-six, was clean-shaven and dressed in a blue tracksuit. Six weeks earlier, on May 4th, Kolesnikov had suffered a dual fracture to his skull. Kolesnikov hadn’t said much about his injury—he told Chizhikov and his other lawyers that he didn’t remember what happened to him, and seemed wary of going into more detail. ” After his head trauma, Kolesnikov became depressed and passive. Source: www.newyorker.com
