MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Lapshin who could choose either Russia or Israel as the deportation destination as he has both the Russian and the Israeli citizenship, Lapshin's lawyer Eduard Chernin told Sputnik on Monday.
"Documents for Lapshin's deportation are being prepared. He is being released from custody. But he himself has not yet chosen the exact route. He could fly either to Israel or to Russia," Chernin said.
Earlier in the day, Azerbaijani President Aliyev pardoned Lapshin.
Lapshin was detained in Minsk In December 2016, at the request of Azerbaijan, where he was included in a black list for a visit to the Azerbaijan's breakaway Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh, without a consent of the Baku authorities. Lapshin was largely supported by Tel Aviv during the time he served in jail.
