How does a murder suspect with ties to Putin get out of pretrial detention within two months?
Businessman Ilya Traber has been released from Moscow’s Lefortovo pretrial detention center, the St. Petersburg-based news outlet Fontanka reported. An investigator ordered his release after his health declined sharply, according to the outlet.
On August 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Nizhny Novgorod, a city hit by a gasoline crisis just a week earlier. Authorities had banned vessel traffic on the Volga and Oka rivers and restricted access to several city streets. Despite these measures, news outlet NewsNN found that most gas stations in Nizhny Novgorod had gasoline available, though some stations had long lines and limited selection.
Just one week prior, many gas stations had run out of fuel, and lines had formed at others. During a previous trip by Putin, gasoline prices in Krasnoyarsk fluctuated dramatically: they dropped sharply the day before his visit and then returned to normal afterward. Putin was set to address the "Strong Ideas for a New Time" forum in Nizhny Novgorod, which had been rescheduled from August 24-25 to August 27-28 to accommodate him.
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