Tajikistan Denies Political Motive Behind Russian Pilots’ Sentencing

DUSHANBE — Tajikistan has said that there is no political motive behind the sentencing this week of two ethnic Russian pilots on charges of smuggling and entering Tajikistan illegally, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reports. A Tajik court on November 8 sentenced Russian citizen Vladimir Sadovnichy and Aleksei Rudenko, an ethnic Russian from Estonia, to 10 1/2 […]