Russia's military seeks new recruits: crime suspects
Evgeny Zhurin, frontman of a small Russian pop band from the 1990s, had been in pre-trial custody facing 10 years in prison before he was spotted in khakis on the front line in Ukraine.
Although Zhurin had insisted on his innocence when charged with defrauding a pensioner, it appeared he had chosen not to take his chances in court but to serve on the battlefield instead.
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