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White Swan ((ロシア語:Белый лебедь); also known as VK-240/2 (ロシア語:ВК-240/2)) is the informal name for an infamous colony of special regime in Solikamsk, Perm Krai, Russia. It is a maximum-security prison for convicts sentenced to life imprisonment. The official name for the prison is (ロシア語:ФКУ ИК-2 ОИК-2 ОУХД ГУФСИН России по Пермскому краю)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://zeki.su/roslag/vk-2402-solikamsk.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.59.fsin.su/structure/ik_2.php )〕 The history of the penal colony begins in 1938. Initially it held only political prisoners, mostly priests, but later it has been used for common criminals as well.〔 White Swan is connected to many legends, it held a number of criminal authorities (Thieves in law), serial killers, and terrorists.〔〔 One of the most radical Chechen separatist warlords Salman Raduyev spent his last days in this prison. He died there under mysterious circumstances. 〔(Chechen warlord dies in Russian jail ).〕〔(Chechen warlord dies in jail ), BBC News, 15 December 2002〕 Also held here was Yury Shutov,a former deputy of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly and a former aide to Saint Petersburg Major Anatoly Sobchak, the author of books "Sobchak's heart" (about Anatoly Sobchak) and "The Godfather of Piterskyes" (about Vladimir Putin). He was sentenced in February 2006 to life imprisonment for a number of murders, attempted murders, and kidnappings Russian authors Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky insist that the charges against Shutov were fabricated.〔Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky The Age of Assassins. The Rise and Rise of Vladimir Putin, Gibson Square Books, London, 2008, ISBN 1-906142-07-6, pages 273-277.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「White Swan (prison)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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