December 4, 2008 №90

WHAT I ACTUALLY SAID

Wednesday, 3 December “As unreliable as any eye-witness”. That was the phrase that came to mind when I read the headlines in the press: “Politkovskaya never told her colleagues about the threats she received” (RIA Novosti);...

Galina Mursalieva, Columnist

IN CLOSED SESSION

Thursday, 4 December Today the proceedings were closed to journalists. 10.55 am The hearing into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya should have begun at 11 am. However, the vehicle bringing the accused to the courtroom in central Moscow was...

Galina Mursalieva, Columnist

THE JUDGE’S ADVICE

Monday, 1 December 11.30 am Murad Musayev, lawyer for Djabrail Makhmudov, asked the presiding judge Yevgeny Zubov to consider the interview given by Petros Garibyan, senior investigator at the Investigative Committee, in October this year...

Vera Chelisheva

MOBILES AND MAPS

WEEK THREE Monday, 1 December 11.30 am As part of the investigation into Anna Politkovskaya’s murder, the prosecution informed the jury, all the phones on which calls were made in and around her apartment block on the day she was killed...

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UNCLE OF ACCUSED AND CHIEF EDITOR TESTIFY

Friday, 5 December 11.20 am The State prosecutor again petitioned the court for the hearing to take place in camera. Journalists and relatives had to leave the courtroom but this time they were warned not to disperse since the following...

Galina Mursalieva, Columnist

A GREEN MODEL 4 LADA

Wednesday, 3 December 10.30 am Outside the courthouse Said Arsamirzayev, attorney for Ibragim Makhmudov, talked to journalists. He was still unsettled by the map of Moscow that the prosecution had shown to the jury the previous day. It...

Vera Chelisheva