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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 17, 2018: An aerial view of No 2 Pretrial Detention Centre (known as Butyrka Prison), its current building completed in 1879; in December 2018 Valery Maksimenko, Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, announced the decision to close the Butyrka Prison along with No 3 Pretrial Detention Centre (Presnya). Valery Sharifulin/TASS (Photo by Valery Sharifulin\TASS via Getty Images)

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 17, 2018: An aerial view of No 2 Pretrial Detention Centre (known as Butyrka Prison), its current building completed in 1879; in December 2018 Valery Maksimenko, Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, announced the decision to close the Butyrka Prison along with No 3 Pretrial Detention Centre (Presnya). Valery Sharifulin/TASS (Photo by Valery Sharifulin\TASS via Getty Images)