Zatulin stood up for Meshkov: “Age and merits give him the right to special treatment.”
The Institute of CIS Countries, headed by State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin, issued a statement in support of ex-President of Crimea Yuri Meshkov, who was arrested for two days on March 20 on charges of failure to comply with police demands and was released yesterday evening. “On March 20, in Simferopol, during the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation, he was detained by the police and...