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30 June 2004. The Moscow City Court agrees to Pichugin's request for trial by jury but refuses to let him examine the "classified" evidence. It also rejects the defence application for an open trial.

10 July 2004. The Moscow City Court is unable to empanel a jury.

22 July 2004. The Moscow City Court again postpones jury selection because of non-attendance by injured parties, whose presence is required.

24 July 2004. The Moscow City Court again postpones jury selection, this time for want of sufficient candidates for a panel of 12.

1 October 2004. The Moscow City Court completes jury selection. From 60 prospective jurors, a panel of 12 with four in reserve is chosen.

4 October 2004. The trial of Aleksey Pichugin begins at the Moscow City Court, behind closed doors.

The trial judge, Natalya Olikhver, informs the jurors that it will last for a month to six weeks.

Proceedings begin with the prosecution's opening address by Svetlana Artemyeva for the Procuracy General. She outlines the substance of the charges against Pichugin and co-defendant Aleksey Peshkun.

The indictment is read out, and Pichugin pleads not guilty to all charges. Peshkun makes a partial confession of guilt but disagrees with the wording of the charge. In a procedure proposed by the prosecution, the defendants will be heard after all witnesses and injured parties have been questioned and all documentary evidence examined.

Injured party Viktor Kolesov takes the stand. He says he strongly doubts that his unknown assailants sought to kill him, describing the prosecution's version of events as "full of assumptions" and saying: "that's not the way to kill someone". His wife also testifies.

Judge Olikhver requires injured parties and witnesses to sign a non-disclosure order on evidence and testimony heard during the trial.

The media, excluded from the court, try to learn from state prosecutor Boris Loktionov why the case is classified and the trial in camera. His answer is "Ring Ustinov and ask him why he decided that way."

5 October 2004. One of Yukos's major shareholders, Vasiliy Shakhnovskiy, and Rosprom secretariat head Dmitriy Dubrovskiy are questioned as witnesses. They speak of the lack of any motive for Pichugin to attack Kolesov.

Shakhnovskiy declares that "the case is a total stitch-up, with no motive, weapon or perpetrator for the crime".

6 October 2004. The trial adjourns because of training exercises for Pichugin's warders.

7 October 2004. Injured party Olga Kostina takes the stand. She answers questions for nearly three hours. Her testimony is emotional and concerns what she describes as her difficult relationship with a major Yukos shareholder, Leonid Nevzlin.

Kostina states that she did not know Pichugin and had only seen him once in a restaurant with Leonid Nevzlin in September 2002 - four years after the explosion. In her words, she learned of Pichugin's involvement from Procuracy General investigators.

Prosecution witness Yekaterina Rozhkova is questioned on the same day. She says she was a secretary to Nevzlin in spring 1998, when Yukos security department head Mikhail Shestopalov appeared in the office with Pichugin and asked her to fetch Kostina's personal file from the records.

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