INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A postgraduate student in St
Petersburg who was jailed for vandalizing a military enlistment office in protest of the war in Ukraine has been released from prison,
independent media reported Wednesday.Vladimir Mironov, 27, was arrested in February 2023 after he smashed windows and spray-painted anti-war
slogans on the walls of an army recruitment center.He was sentenced to four years in prison in July 2024 on charges of disrupting the peace
The time he spent in pre-trial detention counted toward his sentence.Although the prison full term has not yet passed in calendar days,
under Russian law, time spent in pretrial detention is counted as 1.5 days per actual day served, meaning Mironov had effectively completed
his sentence at the time of release on Wednesday.Mironov, a student at the St
Petersburg Academic University, admitted partial guilt and paid damages
group had recognized Mironov as a political prisoner.The Telegram news channel RusNews shared video of his release from a St
