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The court refused to allow Dmitry Buchenkov's defense to question the remaining witnesses in the Bolotnaya case.
The Zamoskvoretsky District Court refused to hold further hearings to question witnesses for the defense of Dmitry Buchenkov, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case. “Mediazona” is about this. Judge Larisa Semenova justified this by saying that, in her opinion, all the witnesses are interested in one way or another, and those who have not yet testified, including Buchenkov’s mother Anna, should have already done so. The judge set the date of the next hearing for October 16, despite the fact that this date is inconvenient for lawyers Svetlana Sidorkina and Ilya Novikov.
At the same meeting, Semenov was to include in the case photographs taken by former Novaya Gazeta photojournalist Evgeny Feldman. Feldman himself talks about this on Facebook.
refused, writes - Feldman spoke at the trial as a witness for the defense on October 13. He writes that lawyer Ilya Novikov, representing Buchenkov’s interests, asked the court to include his photographs in the case, in which the unknown person “is visible much better than on the storyboards of police filming, which the expert calls unclear.” However, the judge found that Feldman was “not as professional” as the police operators and rejected the lawyer’s request. - Buchenkov and his relatives claim that he was not on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. The investigation insists on the opposite, accusing him of participating in mass riots that allegedly took place there and using violence against police officers. As evidence, footage of an operational video with a person who does not resemble Buchenkov is provided. In the images available on file, the dissimilarity is not so obvious. However, since the start of the investigation, clearer photographs have been made public, showing the person whose possible actions on Bolotnaya Square are blamed on Buchenkov.