Lawyer Lercek called the speed of her pardon exception to the rule

The speed of pardoning blogger Valeria Chekalina (Lerchek) was an exception to the rule, her lawyer Konstantin Tretyakov told RBC.

In such an urgent, urgent order, when everything went away literally in a few days, I had not had this before. This is rather an exception to the rule, for which we separately thank all those involved, all who took part in this, he said.

Chekalina appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request for pardon on November 12. Putin signed the decree on pardon on November 14. The blogger thanked the President for the pardon and the opportunity to be close to loved ones. Chekalina's lawyers Konstantin Tretyakov and Natalia Razumovskaya called her pardon a "victory" and also thanked Putin for making the decision quickly.

In July, the Gagarinsky court of Moscow appointed the blogger five years of suspended imprisonment in the case of illegal money transfers abroad. Due to restrictions related to the criminal case, the blogger could not leave Russia, including for cancer treatment.

After the pardon, the defense began to search for her passport. A few hours later, the blogger herself posted a video with the document returned to her.