Article Summary

• She decided not to look for this address. In this decision, she was supported by the author of the article "We know who...", Major Izmailov. In the newspaper, after two of his articles presenting Kapanadze's version, there was not another word about the warrant officer.

Cases and Deaths

• Stanislav Lyubichev, a GIBDD inspector, was sentenced in 2003 in Kislovodsk to 4 years for aiding terrorists: in August 1999, he allowed a truck with explosives into Kislovodsk, despite the visible malfunction of the vehicle and the driver's lack of a license.
• Two witnesses—Krymshamkhalov's uncle, who managed a food warehouse in Kislovodsk, and the guard of that warehouse—could not appear in court: over the past four years, they had managed to die.
• Most of the accused also did not live to see the present day: Denis Saitakov, Timur and Zaur Batchaev, Hakim Abaev, Ravil Akhmyarov.
• Khattab (with whom Gochiyayev apparently hid for a long time—as a valuable witness or in some other capacity) was killed in 2002.
• Lazovsky died in 2000.
• Admiral Ugryumov, whose involvement in the events was written about by Krymshamkhalov and Batchaev, died in 2001.
• A janitor from Kashirskoye Highway was killed shortly after she expressed suspicion about the involvement of one of the surviving residents in the events.
• Radio Liberty employee Alexander Batchan died a few days after he began working on the topic of the Ryazan exercises.
• During the year of the Kovalev Commission's existence, two of its 20 members—Yushenkov and Shchekochikhin—passed away.
• On October 22, Mikhail Trepashkin was arrested on another charge of weapons possession.

Acknowledgements

• November 11, 2003.
• The authors thank V.M. Gefter, S.A. Kovalev, L.S. Levinson, and Yu.G. Felshtinsky for their cooperation.
• Part of the work was carried out with the financial support of the Foundation for Civil Liberties.

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