Ilnaz Galyaviev, the Russian man serving a life sentence for the 2021 school shooting in Kazan that killed nine people, has married an 18-year-old journalism student during a civil ceremony inside Russia's Black Dolphin penal colony.
The bride, identified by Russian media as Diana, said their relationship began through letters she sent to Galyaviev shortly after the attack, when she was 14 years old. The relationship continued through years of correspondence before the couple eventually married while he remained in prison.