Russian Footballers Jailed Over Drunken Assault Regain Freedom.
Russian footballers Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin stand inside a defendants’ cage while waiting for the verdict in their trial for drunken assaults at a court in Moscow. Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFPRussian footballers Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin were released on Tuesday after spending nearly a year in prison over a night of drunken assaults.
“We decided to conclude a contract with Kokorin to run to the end of the season,” the club’s general director Alexander Medvedev told the RIA Novosti news agency. The football season ends in May next year. Including time in pre-trial detention, they had served 11 months of their 17-18 month sentences for hooliganism.
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