18 Jul 2013 17:01

Kvachkov has jail term cut to 8 from 13 years

MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - Retired colonel Valery Kvachkov, convicted of complicity in an armed revolt plot, had his prison term reduced to eight from 13 years by Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday.

The court dropped one of two charges against Kvachkov, who is to serve his sentence in a high-security jail and have one-year rights restrictions after his release, which involve "a ban on changing his residential address and on his travel outside his municipality without notifying the authorities," according to the sentence as read out by judge Andrei Starkov.