- March 30, 2015
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The jury did not have enough time on Monday to reach a verdict in the case of members of the “Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists” (Born). The four defendants – Vyacheslav Isaev, Maxim Baklagina, Mikhail Volkov and Yuri Tikhomirov – accused, among other things, of being involved in the killings and attacks on national and ideological grounds.
The foreman of the jury asked the judge to postpone the meeting Alexander Kozlov on Tuesday due to a large number of issues that for them prepared by the Moscow Regional Court in order to determine the degree of fault of each of the defendants.
The list turned out a total of 69 questions that the judge was reading a half hours. All questions were divided into four conditional block: whether the crime was committed, whether it was committed by specific persons, whether proved their guilt and whether they deserve leniency.
According to the judge Kozlov, the state prosecution believes that the guilt of the accused is proved in full. However, the defense insists on not-guilty verdict, referring the matter to the tune of revenge killed for certain of their actions on the part of the nationalists.
According to the Investigative Committee, members of the group BORN involved in the killings of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova as well as the Moscow City Court Judge Edward Chuvashova, leaders of the anti-fascist movement Fyodor Filatov Ilya Japaridze and Ivan Khutorskoy, athlete Muslim Abdullayev, the helper of the “Black Hawks” Rasul Khalilov and the taxi driver Sosa Khachikian.
One of the alleged leaders of boric Nikita Tikhonov, sentenced in 2011 to life imprisonment for the murder of Markelov and Baburova, in 2014 an additional 18 years for complicity in other crimes created with his participation groups. The arrest of Ilya Goryachev, another ideological leader of the organization of Russian nationalists, was previously the Moscow City Court extended until May 16.
Stable composition
For discussion of the jury verdict, members of the group BORN, not counting the participants in the process, came about 15 people, mostly – journalists with tape recorders. With cameras in the room did not miss the Moscow Regional Court. The defendants, it seems hardly listened to read out the list of questions for the judge to the jury – that read printed materials of the case, something written on sheets of paper.
In his farewell speech, Judge Alexander Kozlov reminded the jury of any crime accused Isaev, Baklagina, Volkov and Tikhomirov. The main charge – the murders on the national and ideological hatred, as well as participation in an extremist community, and illegal possession of weapons.
Members of Borno, according to the investigation, use a nickname, forged documents, radios to coordinate their actions and Skype program with closed source. Composition Born, as reported in the media business was stable, it differed consistency, interchangeability and accurate preparation of the crimes.
When the judge informed the jury Kozlov procedure verdict, two activists Born – Mikhail Volkov and Yuri Tikhomirov – accused the judge of bias and prejudice. According to Volkova, in his summing-judge paid more attention to the arguments of the prosecution, rather than the position of protection.
“If both sides are unhappy …”
Mikhail Volkov, came to the microphone, set in the “tank” for the defendants, called a few episodes, which, in his opinion, were noted by the judge, including the testimony of a single witness to the shooting of alleged gang member “Black Hawk Down” Rasul Khalilov, who was killed 3 September 2009.
The judge adjourned the matter of the defendant. “It has already been stated – he retorted, – no need to hold a debate here, the more that you acknowledge their involvement in the attack on Khalilov”.
“I’m trying to say what you did not say, what matters directly to make a decision, “- objected Volkov.
” We do not give an assessment of evidence – again stopped the defendant judge. – If the two opposing sides are unhappy, then the judge … “
“Right?” – Wolves went for it.
Shortly before the prosecutor of the defendant, on the other hand, stated that the position of the prosecution in the summing-up was not stated by the chairman “adequately”.
instructions for the jury
A number of questions from the list, as explained by the judge to the jury, are the same or similar, but, for example, the answers to the questions “made whether the defendant or that action? ” and “whether the defendant’s guilt is proved in this or that action?” may be different.
“doubt shall be interpreted in favor of the defendants – said the judge. – A guilty verdict can not be based on conjecture, but on an assessment of the evidence”.
The jury retired to the jury room Only at 15:20 Moscow time. In the jury in the case of boric – 8 women and 4 men. In appearance – mostly middle-aged and retired a few.
During the meeting, Judge Alexander Kozlov Moscow Regional Court stated that the jury has the right to interrupt the discussion at the end of the day than those took advantage.
The lawyer Marina Ponomarev, representing the interests of relatives killed by the Moscow City Court Judge Edward Chuvashova, told BBC Russian Service on Tuesday that the jury is likely to complete their work.
“The most interesting thing to come, but for a week it will not be stretch – explained Ponomarev. – Here the clock to keep them locked up, no one will. During the six months people have a tendency to get tired, given the schedule in two or three hearings a week “.
Was there BORN?
The fact members of the “Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists” was seen in the Moscow Regional Court for several months. Grouping, according to investigators, was established in mid-2008 in Moscow, at the suggestion of the National radical Ilya Goryachev, and organization engaged primarily attacks Nikita Tikhonov.
As said at a meeting on Monday, the judge Kozlov, the ultimate goal of boric called the arrival of the nationalists to power in Russia. In addition, the brand Bourn as the name of an armed group, was reportedly offered Tikhonov, who said that “if the murder, no one knows, so this was not murder”.
However, the defendants in the case of Borno, except Vyacheslav Isaev, and their protection in every way deny the existence of community called Bourn, as at a meeting on Monday once again reminded Mikhail Volkov.
“There is an understanding that the Born – is a brand that seems , signed Tikhonov, but some branched organization was not, – said after the meeting of journalists lawyer Denis Volkov Zacepin. – We saw in the hearing that kind of organization in which there is no funding and no one can give orders “.
Isayev – the only pleaded guilty defendant who confirmed as its membership in the Born, and the fact that he is a nationalist. The remaining defendants, speaking with the last word, said they did not agree with the arguments of the prosecution, and Yuri Tikhomirov and does insisted on his innocence, denying nationalist views.
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