MOSCOW, May 29 (RAPSI) – Russia’s Supreme Curt has recommended that judges only consider those who have finished their prison term as having completed their sentence.

The court has ruled that the list of those who have completed their sentence should include not only those who were sentenced and did their time in prison, but also probationers who were sent to serve their sentence in prison, parolees, the amnestied, those whose punishment was deferred, and those who were sentenced to a fine or compulsory community service but were ultimately sent to serve their sentence in prison.

The list also includes foreign nationals who were extradited to serve their term in a Russian prison.

Those who did time in a penal battalion, whose sentence was overturned by an appeals court or a supervisory judicial agency, and those who were released before they were sent to a penal institution will not be considered to have completed their sentences.

Also, those who received a repeat sentence for a crime they committed before their first conviction, those who were convicted under an article that has been decriminalized, and those whose sentence ended while the investigation and/or hearing of their case was in progress will not be considered to have completed their sentences.