Sewed from the substitute

The FSB and the TFR, the factory of the UNA-UNSO case, initially expected him to make him a defendant not the member of the leadership of this party Nikolai Karpyuk, but the leader of the "Right Sector" Dmitry Yarosh. Such an assumption was expressed on his Facebook page by lawyer Karpyuk Ilya Novikov.

As the lawyer noted, in the testimony of Alexander Malofeev, previously convicted in the Una-UNSO case in a special order , Karpyuk is first mentioned only on March 18, 2014, that is, the next day after his detention by security forces at the intersection of the Ukrainian-Russian border. Meanwhile, Yarosh - as well as the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk - was a person involved in this case from the very beginning.

On the other hand, Novikov continued, Karpyuk on Tuesday said that after the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych’s regime in Ukraine, the “right sector” began to receive persistent invitations to come to Russia for negotiations with Vladimir Putin. These invitations were transmitted through a certain "personal friend of Putin, Lieutenant General." “Yarosh refused to go, Karpyuk went, his deputy on ideology,” the lawyer wrote.

“The FSB did not know that Karpyuk would go to Russia instead of Yarosh,” Novikov concluded. “Papers were prepared for Yarosh.”

At the same time, in the testimony that Karpyuk signed at the end of March 2014 under pressure , it is stated that he was traveling to Russia not with Putin, but with the opposition, in particular Boris Nemtsov.

Novikov also said that on Monday, Karpyuk and the second person involved in the case, the Kyiv journalist Stanislav Klykh, was first visited by the Ukrainian consul, Alexander Kovtun, who had achieved this meeting for more than a year. The Political Zygs confirmed the diplomat previously made by them statements about torture and threats. "The consul recorded all this, in the near future the information will go to the ECHR and other international instances," the lawyer added.

On Tuesday, in the Supreme Court of Chechnya, a judicial investigation in the case of UNA-UNSO began. At the request of protection, the first to interrogate Karpyuk himself. The politician told in detail where he was actually in 1994-1995 and 1999-2000, that is, at a time when, according to the prosecution, he fought in Chechnya. According to the Caucasian Knot, Karpyuk also noticed that in Una-UNSO the issue of sending activists to war to Chechnya was not discussed. “This was not encouraged with us,” he explained.

At the beginning of the meeting, it turned out that from the main composition of the jury , including the foreman of the board. The retired assessors were replaced by spare ones, after which the board chose a new foreman. Novikov, however, expressed anxiety in connection with the exception of the jury. “There are only five spare ones left,” he remarked. “If in November - December they will catch a cold at the same pace - after 11 people remain in the college, the whole process will have to start again.”

Also, at the hearing on Tuesday, the presiding judge Vakhit Ismailov made a remark to the guards who did not interfere with the communication of the defendants with journalists on the eve. At the meeting on October 26, the press was admitted to the courtroom, and while Ismailov in the deliberative room was considering one of the defense petitions, the defendants told reporters about torture, and Klykhi demonstrated injury on their foot that remained after torture.

Karpyuk is charged with part 1 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (gang organization), and Klyu - part 1 of this article (participation in the gang). In addition, both paragraphs of "B", "Z", "H", "H" of Article 102 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (intentional killing of two or more persons in connection with the fulfillment of official debt committed by preliminary conspiracy by a group of persons) and part 2 of article 15 are the points, "B" 102 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (attempted assassination for the same crime).

According to the prosecution, in December 1994 - January 1995, Karpyuk, Klykh and other Gang participants fought with the Russian military in Grozny in the territory of the Presidential Palace, as well as a minute and railway station on the square. Karpyuk, as stated, headed the "gang" called "Viking", and Klykh was its member. During these battles, according to the prosecutor's office, they "deprived their lives of at least 30 military personnel and at least 13 military personnel were injured in varying severity." Both of the defendant also charged in the Second Chechen War (details - in the publication of "Mediazons" ).

Preliminary hearings in the case were held on September 15-17 . On October 12, the jury was selected, and on the 13th, the trial began on the merits .