In modern Russia, like in Stalin’s time, ‘confessions’ can override anything, including unbreakable alibis and undeniable historical fact. Russia’s Supreme Court on Oct 26 ignored proof that Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh had been in Ukraine, not Chechnya in 1994, when they are supposed to have fought. It paid no heed to indisputable evidence that the investigators’ story was all wrong, including on how the soldiers the Ukrainians are supposed to have killed died, and where.
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Halya Coynash: Russian Supreme Court rules that alibis and historic fact don’t count
Mykola Karpyuk, Stanislav Klykh (Photo Anton Naumlyuk via khpg.org)
