Court calls off investigation into FSB on Georgian war

A Moscow court has dismissed former investigative committee official Igor Stepanov's request that Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB, be investigated due to a business trip that he was instructed to take to South Ossetia during the country's war with Georgia in 2008. Meduza's correspondent reported from the courtroom.

The court did not justify its decision.

In his petition, Stepanov demanded the the grounds on which he was sent to South Ossetia be investigated. Previously, he submitted a request to the FSB to be given information as to who issued the order to have him sent to South Ossetia and what the order said. The request went unanswered.

• Stepanov travelled to South Ossetia on August 12, 2008 from Vladikavkaz as part of a group of investigators. He returned to Russia on August 14, 2008. In 2011, he resigned from the investigative committee and began to work at the local administration of the Kaluga Region. Currently, Stepanov is cooperating with Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Open Russia movement.