INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Alexei Moskalev, the father of a Russian girl who drew an anti-war picture at school, was released from prison on Tuesday after serving a
Moskalev did not attend his sentencing hearing because he fled house arrest to neighboring Belarus, where he was later detained and
Russian authorities persecuted him for his political views and deprived his daughter Maria of the right to live with her family.Maria, who
being handed over to her estranged mother.On Tuesday, Moskalev walked free from a penal colony in the Tula region town of Novomoskovsk, some
170 kilometers (105 miles) south of Moscow.Videos of his releaseshared by the independent outlets RusNews and Sotavision showed him meeting
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