"Compression of the neck with a blunt object"

Colonel Budanov turned out to be worthy of parole and was released on January 15. Therefore, we decided to return to the material prepared at the time by Anna Politkovskaya: then the issue of pardoning the murderer was being decided

For those who see the colonel as a hero, we publish excerpts from his case. It is in the editorial office. It's almost impossible to read... From the indictment: "In the first hour of the night on March 27 (2000 - Ed.)...

For those who see the colonel as a hero, we publish excerpts from his case. It is in the editorial office.

It's almost impossible to read...

From the indictment:

“At one o'clock in the morning on March 27 ( 2000 - ed. ) Budanov arrived in Tangi. By order of Budanov, the BMP was stopped near the house number 7 on the street. Zarechnaya, where the Kungaev family lived. Budanov, together with Grigoriev and Li-en-shou (sergeants of the BMP crew. - Ed.) went into the house. There was Kungaeva Elza Visaevna, born on March 22, 1982, along with four underage brothers and sisters ... Budanov ordered Lee-en-show and Grigoriev to capture Kungaeva Elsa. Grigoriev and Li-en-shou, wrapping her in a blanket taken from the house, took her out of the house and placed her in the landing compartment of BMP No. 391. After the abduction, Budanov took Kungaeva to the location of military unit 13206. By order of Budanov, Grigoriev, Egorov, Lee-en-show brought to KUNG (unified cargo body) - the room where Budanov lived, wrapped in a blanket Kungaeva, putting her on the floor. After that, Budanov ordered them to stay near KUNG and not let anyone in.

Left alone with Kungaeva, Budanov began ... beating Kungaeva, inflicting multiple punches and kicks on her face and various parts of her body. Kungaeva tried to resist, pushed him away, tried to run out of the KUNG ... Budanov, grabbing Kungaeva by the clothes, threw her on the trestle bed and, grabbing her by the neck with his hand, began to squeeze her neck with force ... until he was convinced that she was not shows signs of life. These deliberate actions of Budanov resulted in a fracture of the right large horn of the hyoid bone in Kungaeva, the development of asphyxia in her and her subsequent death. Realizing that he had committed the deliberate murder of Kungaeva, Budanov summoned Grigoriev, Yegorov and Li-en-show to KUNG and ordered her body to be taken out and secretly buried outside the unit. This instruction of Budanov was carried out by the crew of BMP No. 391. The body of Kungayeva was secretly removed by them and buried in one of the forest plantations, about which Grigoriev reported to Budanov on the morning of March 27, 2000.

From the statement of confession of the accused Budanov Yury Dmitrievich dated 03/27/2000:

“... The girl began to scream, bite, break out. I had to use force. A struggle ensued, as a result of which he tore the girl's jacket and bra. The girl continued to escape, then he had to throw her on the trestle bed and begin to choke. He choked her by the throat with his right hand. He did not take off the lower part of his clothes. After about 10 minutes, she calmed down, he checked the pulse on the neck. She was dead."

From the testimony of witness Koltsov Viktor Alekseevich, who served in military unit 13206 under a contract from 1.02.2000:

“On the night of March 26. 2000 took over as sentries. At night, Budanov left the camp in an infantry fighting vehicle. About 30 minutes later, the BMP returned to the unit, about 100 meters from the BMP parking lot, Budanov shouted to the driver: “turn off the lights.” The BMP drove up to KUNG with the headlights off. When he was replaced from his post and went into his tent, he saw the stoker of the chief of staff Makarshanov. He said that "the commander again brought a woman."

From the testimony of witness Igor Vladimirovich Grigoriev, who served in military unit 13206:

“... 27.03. 2000, upon arrival at the unit, Budanov ordered them to bring the girl, wrapped in a blanket, into his KUNG, and themselves remain next to the KUNG and guard it so that no one enters. Budanov himself stayed in KUNG with the girl. After 10-20 minutes after they left KUNG, Budanov began to shout, what exactly, he did not hear. There were also several screams of the girl, the screams are characteristic of fright ... Then music was heard from the KUNG. For some time women's cries were heard from KUNG. In KUNG, Budanov was with the girl for about 1.5-2 hours. Somewhere after 2 hours, Budanov called all three to KUNG, where a naked woman, whom they had brought, was lying on the bed, her face was bluish in color. She didn't have any clothes on. She lay on her back, face up. There was a blanket on the floor, on the blanket were the girl's clothes - shorts, a jacket, something else. The girl had bruises on her neck, as if she had been choked by the throat. Budanov, pointing at her, with a strange expression on his face, said: "This is a bitch for you for Razamakhnin and for the guys who died at the height." A blanket was laid on the floor, in which they wrapped the girl, taking her out of the house. Her clothes lay in a heap on the same coverlet. Budanov ordered them to take the woman out and bury her so that no one would know. Budanov asked the soldiers: "Who is afraid of the dead?" And he threatened: if they tell someone, he will shoot everyone, he has enough cartridges for all of them, one in the body, and one control shot in the head.

From the testimony of the witness Sayfullin Alexander Mikhailovich, who served in military unit 13206 since August 1999:

“... From the end of January 2000, he served as a stoker in KUNG near Budanov. Approximately around 5-5.15 on March 27, he went to the commander's KUNG to keep the fire in the furnace. Budanov was lying on the right sunbed... Budanov was sleeping. At about 7 am he came to KUNG, poured a bucket for the commander to wash, Budanov said to come at 7.15. The commander said to put things in order in KUNG, and pointing his head at the bed, he ordered to change the blanket and all the linen there. He, Saifullin, started cleaning and noticed that the blanket on the bed was wet. The spot was located about 20 cm from the foot, on the edge adjacent to the wall. Lifting the blanket, he found a yellow stain 15 by 15 cm on the sheet. He changed his linen. Then Budanov gave him an hour of time and ordered him to do a major cleaning in KUNG ..”.

From the act of a forensic examination conducted by experts of the 124th Central Laboratory of Medical Forensic Identification of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, dated March 28, 2000:

“The burial place is a plot in a forest belt, 950 meters from the command post of the unit. The corpse of a completely naked woman wrapped in a blanket (plaid) was found. The corpse lies on the left side, the legs are drawn up to the stomach, the arms are bent at the elbows and pressed to the body. The perineum in the area of ​​the external genital organs is stained with blood, the blanket in this place is also in the blood. A forensic medical examination of the corpse of Kungaeva was carried out on March 28, 2000 from 12 to 14 o'clock on the outskirts of the village of Tangi-Chu with sufficient natural light by the head of the medical department of the 124th laboratory, the captain of the medical service V. Lyanenko. The corpse of a woman 164 cm long ...

On the external genitalia, on the skin of the perineum, on the posterior surface of the upper third of the thighs, there are moist smears of dark red color, similar to blood with mucus ... On the hymen there are hemorrhagic radial linear breaks. In the intergluteal fold, dried traces of red-brown-brown color. At 2 cm from the anus, there is a rupture of the mucous membrane, up to 3 cm long. The tear is filled with clotted blood, which indicates its intravital nature. On the plaid, from the side facing the corpse, there is a wet spot of a dark brown color, similar to blood, measuring 18x20x21 cm. Delivered along with the corpse: 1. Woolen jacket. The back is torn (cut) vertically to the full length ... <...> 3. The T-shirt is worn. The back of the T-shirt is torn (cut) to its full length. 4. The bra is worn. On the left, from the back, cut (torn) to the full width. 5. Panties are worn. From the inside, in the crotch area, they are contaminated with dry dark brown and yellow spots, similar to traces of feces and urine ...

Tears of the hymen and rectal mucosa found on the corpse of Kungayeva were formed from the introduction of a blunt solid object (objects) into the rectum and vagina. It is possible that such an object could be a tense (in a state of erection) penis ... ... the free end of the handle of a small sapper shovel could also serve. At the same time, the experts came to the unanimous conclusion that the damage to the hymen and rectal mucosa, found during the examination of the corpse, are intravital .. "<...>

From the materials of the preliminary investigation:

“According to the investigation, any involvement of Kungaeva E.V. to illegal armed formations or her participation in illegal armed formations could not be established.”

What goes into the circle? In Russia worthy of pardon:

Brutal rape... Abduction... Brutal strangulation... Mocking a corpse...

How to be with all this?

No way. You can't live with this.

(Fragments of the case are given with the preservation of spelling and punctuation)