Maria Klimova: Protection Hasis

Maria Klimova

In the Moscow City Court, the next meeting was held in the case of the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. On April 7, Olga Mukhacheva defended the defense of the defense. She, as earlier, and the leader of the Russian Verdict nationalist organization, Alexei Baranovsky, tried to convince the jury that the accused Evgenia Hasis has Alibi.

The meeting began with the request to defend the accused to interrogate the friend of Alexander Baranovsky Olga Mukhacheva. Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Hasis, who were taken to the court of the court under the escort and put him in the Aquarium, chuckled and looked with interest at the gathered persons. The performance began with a hitch, because Mukhachev, being a citizen of Ukraine, had blurred the address at which it was registered.

“I live in Moscow. In Zheleznodorozhny, ”the witness said after a minute pause.

Mukhacheva, whose husband is accused of organizing the Northern Brotherhood nationalist extremist group, at the time of the murder of Markelov and Baburova, was in the Lyubertsy maternity hospital. There, Baranovsky called her, who decided to boast of a bottle of collection champagne, which he bought on the eve of his birthday.

“He always celebrated this holiday with me before. And then I was going to give birth and he called to boast of the fact that he buys a bottle of expensive champagne and generally led the type of on-line broadcasting about preparing for his birthday. In a conversation, he mentioned that he was with Zhenya, ”says Mukhacheva. Despite the fact that she was friends with Baranovsky and was familiar with Hasis in absentia, she had never seen the accused before, they spoke only by mail after young people were taken to jail.

In 2009, Hasis worked in the “Russian Verdict” of Baranovsky. Now her place is occupied by Mukhachev.

After the prosecutor’s question about what number Baranovsky called her, how many times and how many times, the witness was confused. She generally remembers little from the day of the murder that occurred on January 19, 2009.

“I was about to give birth!”, Mukhacheva exclaimed abruptly in response to the next question of the prosecutor. He put her at a dead end and the question of when she found out that Baranovsky was communicating with Hasis. The witness repeated several times that this happened after she became pregnant.

“So when exactly this happened,” Judge Alexander Zamashnyuk asked once again. “Yes, I don’t know, I don’t remember! What to answer? ”, Suddenly asked the witness to the meetings gathered in the hall.

During the interrogation of the witness in the absence of jury, Mukhacheva noted that the leader of the “Russian Verdict” was recorded in her phone under the nickname “Sober”. It should be noted that a person with such a nickname often appears in these wiretaps of the apartment of Tikhonov and Hasis. In addition, a person under a similar nickname in 2009 published a laudatory post about Tikhonov on Livejournal.

“I would like a question regarding the nickname or nickname Baranovsky to be considered in the presence of jury,” the prosecutor said. “It was called it!”, One of the lawyers of protection interrupted him. “It was driven by you!” The prosecutor answered, after which both sides listened to several remarks from the judge. By the way, there were several similar skirmishes for one meeting.

Mukhacheva told the jury that she had given Baranovsky advice on how to behave with Hasis, with whom he often quarreled. According to her, she and Hasis are similar to the characters, which is why Baranovsky turned to her. Earlier, the head of the “Russian Verdict” admitted that he first experienced not only friendly feelings for Hasis, but after he found out that she was meeting with Tikhonov, they began to “just communicate”.

After the detention of Tikhonov and Hasis, Baranovsky, according to the witness, "" very worried and drank a lot. "

After the interrogation of Mukhachev, the court continued to interrogate Baranovsky. The leader of the “Russian image” said that he had not previously announced Alibi Hasis, because he was afraid of the pressure of investigators. According to him, the Council of announcing his testimony only in court was given several journalists from different publications, including for some reason, a “private correspondent”.

“Yes, I was afraid! You will also behave when you will be in my place! ”, Baranovsky exclaimed.

He also stated that the lawyer Alexander Vasiliev, who initially defending the interests of Hasis, and now Tikhonov, also knew from the beginning of the process that Hasis had Alibi.

Judge Zamashnyuk noted that if he knew about this from the very beginning, he would not have allowed Vasiliev to the process.

“After Hasis and I bought champagne, she left for business to the south of Moscow. And I spent the night with one girl, ”Baranovsky explained. However, which girls had, he refused to speak, referring to the fact that the courtroom is full of “anarchist” press.

During the meeting, Judge Zamashnyuk called Baranovsky to the accused several times and apologized each time with a smile. “You would apparently really like this,” Tikhonov said, for which he received a reprimand from the judge. During the testimony of Baranovsky, the accused laughed several times into his voice and rolled his eyes. He and Hasis behaved quite relaxed and almost the entire meeting was quietly talking and holding hands.

The jury, among which were mostly elderly people, asked questions through the notes that they transmitted to the secretary. According to one of them, Baranovsky threatens them with persecution and the publication of their personal data. The leader of the nationalist group, however, denies all charges against him.

“I believe that some of the jury work for the investigation, but these are my personal conclusions,” Baranovsky said. Later, after the jury went home, Judge Zamashnyuk recalled that only one who does not trust people at all. The judge announced that the next meeting would be held on Monday, March 11 and again called on the sides of the prosecution and protection to solve conflict situations “without hysteria”.