Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed on Friday a decree on pardoning four individuals imprisoned in Russia for alleged contact with Western intelligence agencies, the Kremlin press service said.
The pardoned individuals are Alexander Zaporozhsky, Gennady Vasilenko, Sergei Skripal and Igor Sutyagin.
All four have appealed to the Russian president to free them after admitting their crimes against the Russian state, press secretary Natalia Timakova said.
MOSCOW, July 9 (RIA Novosti)
