Activists from the Youth YABLOKO were waiting for President
of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov be the entrance to the office
of the Echo Moskvi radio station so that to remind him of
the murder of Larissa Yudina, a journalist and leader of the
Kalmykia branch of YABLOKO, killed 12 years ago.
The activists of the Youth YABLOKO Andrei Koshman and Maxim
Kruglov were waiting for Kalmykian President holding placards
with portraits of Larissa and an inscription “Not to Forget
and Not to Forgive”.
Ilyumzhinov’s cars passed the young activists and the security
even went out of the cars, however, did not take any actions
against young YABLOKO’s activists.
Larissa Yudina, the leader of Kalmyk YABLOKO and Editor-in-Chief
of oppositional Sovietskaya Kalmykia Segodnya paper, was murdered
12 years ago on June 7, 1998. The official investigation does
not name the person who ordered this crime, however, they
obviously know this person. The question about Ilyumzhinov’s
personal involvement in the crime is still open, as the organiser
of the murder S.Vaskin (a person with repeated convictions)
was Ilyumzhinov’s Legal Advisor
“The person who ordered the murder of Larissa Yudina and
all the people involved in this crime should not avoid punishment.
The goal of objective investigation should be suspend the
proxy of Ilyumzhinov as President of Kalmykia,” runs the statement
by YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin.
See also:
The
Murder of Larissa Yudina. Chronicle of Events
Human
Rights
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