Advocates of defendants in BORN case intend to appeal against verdict

The Moscow Regional Court has announced the verdict in the case against the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (BORN). The defendants' advocates called the verdict too severe and declared their intention to appeal against it.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that today, the Moscow Regional Court has announced the verdict in the case against the BORN. Maxim Baklagin, Vyacheslav Isaev, and Mikhail Volkov were found guilty of all charges filed against them. Maxim Baklagin and Vyacheslav Isaev were sentenced to life imprisonment. Mikhail Volkov was sentenced by the Court to 24 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony. Yuri Tikhomirov, who earlier had been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony for the murder of Ilya Djaparidze, has been today acquitted by the Court in the case against the BORN. The sentence was announced on the basis of the verdict of the jury issued on March 31.

The defendants were accused of involvement in a number of resonant crimes committed in 2008-2010 in Moscow, including the murders of Judge Eduard Chuvashov, advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, Muslim Abdullaev, the world champion in Thai boxing, antifascists Fyodor Filatov, Ivan Khutorskoy, and Ilya Djaparidze, Rasul Khalilov, a figurant of the case of "Black Hawks", and taxi driver Sosa Khachikyan.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.