In Moscow City Court, Ilya Goryachev, the suspected leader of the far-right terror group BORN (Militant Organisation of Russian Nationalists), is standing trial. He is accused of five murders and setting up a criminal organisation.
This is already the fifth trial on crimes committed by BORN. In February of this year, four former members of BORN stood trial for murder. Two of them received life sentences. In 2011, Nikita Tikhonov and Evgeniya Khasis were sentenced to life imprisonment and 18 years respectively for the 2009 shootings of Stanislav Markelov, a human rights lawyer, and Anastisya Baburova, a trainee reporter at Novaya Gazeta. BORN was also responsible for the deaths of Eduard Chuvashov, a Moscow district judge, and Ilya Dzhaparidze, an anti-fascist activist, and others.
As documents from this new case reveal, my name could have been on this list too.
