One of the leaders of the “Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists” (BORN) Nikita Tikhonov, who was convicted in 2011 to life imprisonment for the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist of “Novaya Gazeta” Anastasia Baburova, the prosecutor asked to sentence back to 20 years in prison. State prosecution noted on Thursday that the defendant acted “on the basis of the ideology of their own superiority».
Recall Tikhonov charged with the creation of an extremist community, a stable armed group and participated in the attacks, seven murders committed for reasons of ideological and ethnic hatred, associated with gang as well as the illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, committed by an organized group.
Tikhonov in response to the words of the prosecutor said dryly that recognizes a fully blame on all counts (previously made a deal with the investigation, so it is considered a special order – without questioning witnesses and victims).
The lawyer Alexei Pershin found the prosecutor called the term “unnecessarily cruel” because his client was “a long time spent in prison and recognized the fallacy their views, “the more that his actions were purely selfish character.
Sentencing is scheduled for September 22. On the same day Tikhonov perform with the last word.
According to the investigation, in mid-2008 in Moscow, Ilya hot (is under investigation, arrested until November 8), Nikita Tikhonov and others have created extremist community and sustainable armed group “BORN”. The purpose of the community have been murder “based on the ideological and national hatred and hostility, attacks on law enforcement officers in revenge for their legitimate activities.” On account of the gang – the murder of the Moscow City Court judge Eduard Chuvashova, lawyer Stanislav Markelov, the leaders of the anti-fascist movements Fyodor Filatov, Ilya and Ivan Khutorskoy Japaridze, the world champion in Thai boxing Muslim Abdullayev, the attempted murder of a police officer Gagik Benyaminyana and dozens of similar crimes. As part of the gang at different times since mid-2008 to March 2011 committed crimes nationalists Vyacheslav Isayev, Maxim Baklagina, Mikhail Volkov and Yuri Tikhomirov – Moscow Regional Court considers their case.
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