The document, signed by pathologist Marina Borisenko, lists "left ventricular insufficiency" in the column for the condition directly leading to death. Kondratov died at 23:59 on October 23, according to the report, which his brother Alexei Kondratov gave to Mediazona.

A post-mortem summary obtained through a lawyer's request lists ischemic cardiomyopathy as the underlying disease. The onset date is given as midnight on October 23 — the same day at 22:15 Kondratov, "while held as a convicted person in a pre-trial detention center, lost consciousness," the document says.

He was brought to Botkin Hospital at 23:29, "during ongoing resuscitation measures one hour and 14 minutes after the onset of clinical death" and half an hour before doctors pronounced biological death. On October 27, the head of the pathology department, Nikita Chizhikov, told the defense orally that the cause of death was a type 2 myocardial infarction.

Kondratov's body remains in the Botkin Hospital morgue almost three weeks later. His lawyer has still not been shown it; according to the filmmaker's brother, the refusal was justified by the absence of a power of attorney from relatives.

On November 11, the Moscow City Court rejected an appeal against Kondratov's detention. Commenting on the defendant's absence, the judge mentioned that he could not attend "for known reasons," lawyer Dmitry Biryulin told Mediazona. The next decision on the preventive measure was due on December 5.

"The Moscow City Court could have used Alexander's case to rule that the formalist approach to extending detention in treason cases is unlawful. Instead, the court took the easiest path for itself and left everything as it was," Biryulin said.

Kondratov, 52, was detained at Vnukovo on May 5. According to the Memorial project Support for Political Prisoners, he had lived in Kyiv since 2012 and had come to change his foreign passport. Before the treason case, he was subjected to "carousel arrests"; in August he was sent to a pre-trial detention center. According to his lawyer, the case was prompted by six online publications whose content is unknown.

The Khoroshevsky investigative department in Moscow did not respond to a request about the status of the investigation into Kondratov's death, Biryulin said. Kondratov worked on "Liquidation," "Odessa-Mama" and "Return My Love," and received Golden Eagle and TEFI awards for his work on "Liquidation."