INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A French researcher sentenced by Russia to three years in prison has been transferred to a transit penal colony, his family told AFP on
Thursday.Laurent Vinatier, who works for a Swiss conflict mediation NGO, was arrested last summer amid heightened tensions between Moscow
Moscow to a transit colony in Tula, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of the capital
He is expected to spend 15 days in quarantine there.It remains unclear where Vinatier will serve the rest of his sentence
several Western nationals jailed in Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022
French government has denounced his conviction as arbitrary
