YUKOS ex-lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina who is eight months gone in pregnancy has pleaded pardon from the Russian President, her lawyer said Tuesday. In her letter to Dmitry Medvedev Bakhmina writes about her conscientious work and community involvement in the colony.
      
      Bakhmina has pleaded guilty of embezzlement and tax evasion. Mother of two children, she said it is going to be a huge stress for the kid to be born in prison. In September she was turned down a parole request despite her pregnancy and certificate of good prison conduct.
      
      Bakhmina was charged with failing to pay 606,000 rubles ($22,600) in taxes in 2001-2002 and of diverting 8 billion rubles' worth ($298.73 million) of property from YUKOS subsidiary Tomskneft in the late 1990s.
      
      Source: www.news.yandex.ru