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Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One A Self-Blinded Murder Investigation

Missing Surveillance Tapes Discussed at the Trial of Nemtsov’s Accused Killers

Other Withheld Materials

A Brief Window

The Nemtsov Family Attorneys on the Missing Tapes

A New “Zapruder Film”

Protecting “State Secrets”

The “Kulagin Dashcam Tape”: Video Evidence Spurned by the Authorities

Journalist David Satter Discusses the “Kulagin Tape”

A Videotape from 3 Veernaya Street in Moscow

A November 2017 Update from Igor Murzin

Conclusion

Chapter Two A Seemingly Endless Flawed Trial

What is Media-zona?

Interviews of Three Jurors

A Transparent Hint from Putin as the Trial was Winding Down

The Role of Torture in Obtaining Confessions from the Accused

The Defense Cites the Alleged Torture of the Accused

The European Court for Human Rights Identifies Torture in the Case of One of the Accused

Economist Andrei Illarionov Emphasizes the Use of Torture

The Persecution of Defense Attorney Zaurbek Sadakhanov

Conclusion

Chapter Three The Version of the Prosecution

A Report by Kommersant One Week after the Murder

“Patriots of Russia and Her Enemies”

The Significance of this Leaked Version

A Prestigious State Award

The Version Favored by Putin—A “Ukrainian Trace”

Tatyana Stanovaya on the “Ukrainian Trace”

Spreading Putin’s Preferred Version of the Crime

Postscript: Two Assassination Attempts in 2017

Putin Tribune Sergei Markov Discusses the “Ukrainian Trace”

A Ukrainian Pistol

A Second Novaya gazeta Report on the Assassination

Preparing the Murder

The Carrying Out of the Murder

The Arrest and Afterwards

After the Murder

Concerning the Motives for the Murder

The Significance of this Second Novaya gazeta Report

The Early Course of the Investigation

Duritskaya’s 28 February 2015 Account

Fact-checking Duritskaya’s Testimony

Taking Stock Forty Days after the Murder

The Chekist Version Forty Days On

The Crime Is Declared to Have Been Solved

Eyewitnesses, Gone Missing for Months, Suddenly Appear

The Court Testimony of Evgenii Molodykh

Molodykh and the Facts of the Case

The Prosecution’s Final Argument

Muddying the Waters

The Jury Finds the Accused Guilty--the Judge Then Passes Sentence

Conclusion

Postscript: One year after the Verdict, the Investigations Committee and FSB Reopen the Case

Chapter Four The Version of the Nemtsov Family Attorneys

Commentary

A Second Major Prokhorov Interview

Commentary

Prokhorov Debunks the “Ukrainian Trace” in the Murder

The Position of Attorney Olga Mikhailova

Identifying Chechen MVD and FSB Personnel among the Alleged Hitmen

Prokhorov’s February 2017 Interview with TheIns.ru

Questioning other Witnesses

Petitions submitted by Olga Mikhailova

Commentary

The Nemtsov Family Attorneys Attempt to Intercede for the Accused

Witnesses called by the Family Attorneys

Gennadii Gudkov’s Testimony

The Testimony of Ryklin, Yashin and Gudkov

Summary of Findings

Prokhorov’s Summation

Assessing the Final Arguments of the Nemtsov Family Attorneys

An Interview with Vadim Prokhorov Five-and-a-Half Months after the Trial

Assessing Prokhorov’s December 2017 Conclusions

Chapter Five The Versions of Vladimir Milov and Andrei Illarionov

Part One: The Findings of Economist Vladimir Milov

Milov’s Blog of 2 March 2015

Subsequent Milov Commentary

Milov on the Murder Investigation as of the Summer of 2016

Conclusion

Part Two: The Findings of Economist Andrei Illarionov

Positing a Second Shooter

Illarionov’s March 2 Interview with GordonUA.com

Two Years On--Countering Ilya Yashin’s Alleged “False Testimony”

Illarionov’s View of the Crime as of April 2017

Conclusion

Chapter Six The Versions of Leonid Martinyuk and Andrei Piontkovskii

Part One: The Conclusions of Filmmaker Leonid Martinyuk

Identifying the Mastermind behind the Murder

Part Two: The Findings of Mathematician Andrei Piontkovskii

Why the FSB Attack on the “Kadyrov Project”?

Subsequent Commentary

Bulldogs Fighting under a Rug

Information Uncovered by Journalist David Satter

Conclusion

Chapter Seven The Version of an Outlier

Novaya gazeta Assails Murzin

Murzin Encounters Kuznetsov

Dmitrii Muratov of Novaya gazeta excoriates Murzin

Attorney Vadim Prokhorov Dismisses Murzin’s findings

Murzin Rebuts Prokhorov

Piontkovskii and Martinyuk on Murzin’s Writings

Comments by Leonid Martinyuk

The Nemtsov Assassination: a “Sacral Sacrifice”

Mining the “Materials of the Case”

David Satter in late October 2017 Discusses Murzin’s Evidence

Murzin on Material from “Potok”

Murzin’s April 2017 Comments on an Alleged “Ukrainian Trace” in the Murder

Conclusion

Chapter Eight The Version of the Defense

Treatment of Defense Attorney Khadisov

Belittling Defense Attorney Byurchieva

The Treatment of Defense Attorney Tsakaev

A Gambit by the Defense--Shift the Blame for the Murder onto the Deceased Shavanov

The “Toptuny”

Chain of Custody of the Shell Casings

Questions concerning the Purchase of a ZAZ Shans Getaway Vehicle

Duritskaya’s Testimony

Bridge Video

The Key Kulagin Dashcam Video

The Questioning of Zaur Dadaev in Court

Beslan Shavanov’s Arrival in Moscow

Dadaev’s Activities on the Day of the Murder

The Judge Excludes Surveillance Videos from the House Camera at Veernaya 3

Mark Kaverzin Makes the Defense’s Case for Dadaev

Defense Attorney Tsakaev Speaks

Final Plea to the Jury

Final Pleas of the Gubashev Brothers

Dadaev’s Final Plea

Media-zona Sums up the Defense’s Case at the Conclusion of the Trial

A Crushing Verdict for the Defense

Chapter Nine The Author’s Version

SPPS Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

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