Savchenko transferred back to jail 

MOSCOW – Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko was transferred back to a detention center in Moscow on April 30, after spending just two days in a civilian hospital. Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service said Ms. Savchenko was sent back to prison after doctors in Moscow City Hospital No. 20 concluded that her health condition was “satisfactory.” The announcement came hours after Savchenko’s lawyer, Mark Feygin, said his client wanted to go back to the detention center as conditions in the “special ward” at the hospital were “substantially worse than expected” and “certainly worse” than the medical unit at Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center. Mr. Feygin also said that relatives and the Ukrainian consul were barred from visiting Ms. Savchenko in the hospital, and that the move was making it harder for her lawyers to do their job. Prison authorities had said on April 28 that Ms. Savchenko was moved to a civilian hospital because her health had deteriorated. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by TASS and Interfax)