The United States and human rights defenders from the European Union consider him a political prisoner, and an official statement from Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the judgment "striking in its cruelty".
從歐洲聯盟美國和人權的捍衛者認為他是一個政治的囚犯，和一份官方聲明從俄外交部稱為“突出其殘忍”的判斷。