Word: okhotin
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...Russian authorities like to play a game of chicken,” he says, explaining that he suspects officials hope Okhotin will flee the country before his trial, in which case they can declare him guilty and imprison...
...Okhotin agrees, saying he has been contacted by government officials with hints that such an escape would be possible...
...aside from the legal dangers such an escape attempt would pose, Okhotin says there is a “moral side” to his insistence on staying in Moscow and facing his charges...
...Okhotin says he initially approached his situation on a religious level...
Chanta Bhan, an HDS student who is a former leader of HDS Christian Fellowship, of which Okhotin is a member, organized a 12-hour prayer vigil in late May, which she says involved between 50 and 100 people across the country and in Russia...