Some time ago, there was a minor scandal: A deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) said at a meeting with Ramzancheg (a mocking reference to Ramzan Kadyrov) that they had reached an agreement under which all convicted Chechens would serve their sentences only in Chechnya. There was this ITAR-TASS report: **GROZNY, March 14. /ITAR-TASS correspondent Ilyas Asuev/. Chechens convicted in Russian regions will serve their sentences in the republic. This agreement was reached today in Grozny at a meeting between the republic’s president, Ramzan Kadyrov, and First Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation, Major General of the Internal Service Eduard Petrukhin. The head of the republic noted that "despite the fact that prisoners are people who have strayed from the true path for various reasons in life, they must not be written off." For his part, Eduard Petrukhin emphasized that "they are ready to accommodate the Chechen leadership and return all convicted persons to serve their sentences in the institutions of the Chechen Republic’s penal system, except for those sentenced to life imprisonment." **I wasn’t too lazy to write an angry letter to the prosecutor’s office. On Friday, a reply arrived: