Суд мести

Pichugin lawyer Kseniya Kostromina announces that the defence is applying to have the charge relating to the Lobikov episode dropped, as the statute of limitations has expired. Judge Olikhver, without consulting Lobikov or the prosecution, dismisses the application as premature.

28 February 2005. Judge Olikhver unexpectedly reconsiders the defence's application to have the Lobikov charge dropped. The prosecution protests but the judge, for the first time in the Pichugin case, sides with the defence and strikes off the charge that Pichugin made death threats against Lobikov. She also agrees to the defence request to have all intelligence notes removed from the case file.

2 March 2005. No proceedings due to illness of Peshkun's lawyer.

10 March 2005. The Moscow City Court extends the custody order for Pichugin and Peshkun to 11 June 2005. Again, no proceedings due to illness of Peshkun's lawyer.

15 March 2005. The prosecution reads out several documents and then rests its case. At the first trial, prosecutors took more than five weeks of daily hearings to make their case against Pichugin. At the second trial, three weeks with adjournments is sufficient.

16 March 2005. The defence calls Aleksey Kondaurov, a former FSB general and now member of the Russian State Duma, and Nevzlin's former assistant Irina Fedorova.

Fedorova says that Rozhkova was lying when she claimed that she took Kostina's file to Nevzlin, because since September 1995 she had not been working in Nevzlin's office. To corroborate her story, Fedorova asks the court to call Nadezhda Isangildina, a former secretary to Nevzlin.

17 March 2005. Nadezhda Isangildina is called. She says that she worked as a secretary to Nevzlin from September 1995 to 1999 and that Rozhkova left the office in September 1995. She thereby completely contradicts Rozhkova's evidence against Pichugin and Nevzlin.

18 March 2005. The defence discloses a number of documents and rests its case.

22 March 2005. Aleksey Pichugin again states his innocence of all charges made against him. He explains that prior to being charged he had never heard of Kolesov or Kostina, attempts on whose lives he is accused of organising. He says that Olga and Sergey Gorin, whose murders he is also charged with, were good friends of his. And he denies knowing Leonid Nevzlin (whom the prosecution believe commissioned the crimes in the indictment against Pichugin).

Aleksey Peshkun, the co-defendant, pleads guilty to an attempt on the life of Olga Kostina.

Setting the date for the next hearing, Judge Olikhver turns down a defence request for time to prepare for closing speeches. She also orders the defence not to examine the state prosecutors' speech, due to be delivered before the jury during closing arguments.

23 March 2005. Closing arguments before the jury begin. Prosecution, defendants and defence speak. The jury is to declare its verdict tomorrow.

State prosecutor Kamil Kashayev urges the jury to convict Pichugin on all three charges. He says that Pichugin's guilt is proven by witness testimony (given by Korovnikov's gang of killers and rapists from Tambov).

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