Good news: Jailed Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was granted a bail motion today at his
hearing. He will be released on a $50,000 bond which his employer ElcomSoft will put up. However,
he must remain in Northern California pending his trial. Dmitry will be "released into the custody
of a local man of Russian decent who shares mutual friends with with Dmitry." A pre-trial is set to
occur in 20 days where Sklyarov will be arraigned. The U.S. Attorney will continue to hold his passport
and there will be "no electronic monitoring or otherwise invasive limitation on Dmitry." Read the
EFF announcement.
