They are serving their sentence in Chita on the Chinese border, although Russian law prescribes that, for the crimes with which they were charged, they were entitled to be imprisoned near their place of domicile, i.e., in Moscow.
Они отбывают свой срок в Чите, на границе с Китаем, несмотря на предписание российского закона, согласно которого они имели право на отбытие срока неподалёку от места своего проживания, т.е. в Москве.