A lawyer has called for Nogmov's awards to be disregarded in the Nalchik pensioner's murder case.

Rustam Nogmov has fully admitted his guilt in the murder of pensioner Nina Selezneva, the prosecutor stated at his trial in Nalchik. In his final statement, Nogmov asked the court "not to punish him harshly."

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on January 30, 2025, Rustam Nogmov, while in a park area in Nalchik and under the influence of alcohol and drugs, without apparent provocation, inflicted multiple bodily injuries on an 86-year-old woman with his hands and feet, from which the victim died at the scene. He then desecrated the deceased's body. At the end of November 2025, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria began hearing the criminal case against 24-year-old Nalchik resident Nogmov.

At today's court hearing, the prosecutor analyzed the evidence. In his testimony, Nogmov stated that he did not remember the murder, Gazeta Yuga reports.

The store clerk he spoke with the night before the crime reported that he told her he was "going to university" and "was taking online courses to become a massage therapist."

One of the police officers testified in court that when Nogmov was brought to the police station on Kabardinskaya Street, he "denied any involvement in any crime, including murder, during the conversation." At the same time, the police officer noticed a "mark, possibly left by a human tooth," on one of Nogmov's hands.

A friend of Nogmov's testified that on the evening of January 29, 2025, Nogmov offered him mephedrone. While in a car in the courtyard of a building on Kulieva Avenue, they ordered 1.5 grams of drugs online, worth over 8,000 rubles. Around 11:00 PM, they received a link with a photo of the stash at the intersection of Baysultanova and Tarchokova Streets, in an apartment building. After picking up the drugs, they drove to the Iskozh neighborhood, bought wine, water, and cigarettes along the way, and around 12:30 AM, rented a booth at a gaming club for an hour and a half. There, they used mephedrone and played computer games. A friend dropped Nogmov off at his courtyard and drove away. He doesn't know why Nogmov went to the park instead of going home.

According to a medical examination, several illegal substances were found in Nogmov's blood, including mephedrone and methadone. A sexological examination revealed no "sexual anomalies" or "disorders of sexual preference, including gerontophilia."

The prosecutor requested that his admission of guilt, participation in combat, and the possession of a state award be considered mitigating circumstances. Committing the crime while intoxicated was considered an aggravating circumstance.

Aleksey Shak, representing the deceased's husband, stated that Nogmov's state award for participating in a special military operation, in his opinion, cannot be considered a mitigating circumstance. "All his services to the Fatherland are diminished by the crimes he committed," the lawyer stated in court.

Lawyer Khabas Evgazhukov proposed that his client be released from criminal liability. He noted that the initial examination, conducted at the Republican Clinical Center for Psychiatry and Narcology of the Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Health, concluded that "at the time of the commission of the incriminated acts, Nogmov was unable to understand and control his actions... as a result of consuming mephedrone and methadone in combination with alcoholic beverages."

In his final statement, Rustam Nogmov asked the court "not to punish him harshly." The court retired to the deliberation room to consider the verdict.