Bakhmina herself asked to be left alone

After Svetlana Bakhmina was transferred due to pregnancy from the hospital in prison to a civilian institution she requested the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FPS) in Mordovia to shield her from outsiders.

Victor Malkov, head of the Mordovia FPS, told Interfax that he received a statement from the prisoner Bakhmina in which she informed him that she did not want to meet anyone apart from her family and doctors.

“In connection with numerous discussions in the media I am requesting you to inform all interested persons that, for the present, due to my state of health I do not want to meet with anyone apart from my doctors and family. For understandable reasons the most important thing for me during this period is peace and calm,” quoted Malkov, reading an excerpt from Bakhmina’s statement.

At the same time the former Yukos lawyer assured FPS management that “the conditions in which I am being treated and my state of health are satisfactory.” “I am receiving all necessary treatment,” noted Bakhmina.

The head of the FPS in Mordovia confirmed to Interfax that the Yukos manager, who is in her ninth month of pregnancy, was recently transferred from a prison hospital to a civilian hospital in the town of Yavas.

(Interfax, 5.11.2008)