Timeline of Events

• In 1998, Trepashkin took part in a press conference where FSB officers Litvinenko, Ponkin, and Shcheglov accused the FSB of criminal activity. Trepashkin attended the press conference as a victim.
• After this, Trepashkin spent two years in private legal practice.
• In September 2001, he gave an interview to French journalists who were filming the movie "Assassination of Russia," in which he spoke about the activities of the FSB in the context of the apartment bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk.
• Immediately after this, a search was conducted at his home.
• A criminal case was opened against Trepashkin on charges of disclosing state secrets and illegal possession of weapons.
• The second charge was later dropped, but the first remained.
• In early 2002, Trepashkin met Sergei Yushenkov and began actively cooperating with him within the framework of the commission investigating the apartment bombings in Russian cities in 1999.
• In the same year, he became the legal representative of the Morozov sisters, who live in the USA (they were recognized as victims in the apartment bombings case).
• In August 2003, Tatyana Morozova came to Moscow and, together with Trepashkin, sought access to documents on the bombings case. This was the only attempt by the victims of the 1999 bombings to obtain at least some information on the case.
• On October 31, 2003, the trial in the apartment bombings case began, at which M.I. Trepashkin was supposed to act as the lawyer for the victims. But he was unable to do so.
• On October 22, while returning to Moscow from Dmitrov, where he had gone on business as a lawyer, Trepashkin was stopped by traffic police officers, and a pistol was planted on him.
• Since then, he has been in prison.

1.12.2003. Arbat, District Military Court. Photo by N. Gorokhov