After two and a half years of imprisonment on charges of abuse of office and election irregularities, Tatyana Kazakova, a former real estate magnate and the current mayor of Listvyanka (a fishing village on Lake Baikal in Siberia), was released on bail pending a verdict in her criminal prosecution. She was arrested in 2008 by the F.S.B., apparently in response to a lawsuit she filed against a resort owned by the F.S.B.; her suit alleged that construction activity at the resort threated Listvyanka's heating supply. If convicted, Kazakova could be sentenced to several years of imprisonment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/world/europe/04detain.html?src=mv
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