Russian man who survived 2 months adrift in the Sea of Okhotsk is sentenced to forced labor in relatives’ deaths

A court in Ulan-Ude, the capital of Russia’s Buryatia region, convicted Mikhail Pichugin on charges stemming from the deaths of two relatives and sentenced him to three years of forced labor with 10 percent of his wages withheld, the Russian business news outlet RBC and the Russian state news agency TASS reported.