Press release, 01.08.2015
On one year anniversary of the murder of Timur Kuashev activists of the Moscow branch of Youth YABLOKO conducted one-person picketing outside the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee demanding to investigate the murder of YABLOKO member and opposition journalist. The activits also handed in the signatures demanding to investigate the case to the receiving offices of the organisations.

Photo by Diana Aliyeva

Timur Kuashev was gone on July 31 2014. The next day the workers of the Rescue Service found his body was in a forest by the road. Timur’s relatives and friends are certain that Timur was murdered because of his political activity since Timur had received threats form the law enforcement including the Center for Combating Extremism (or Center E, as it is usually referred to, whose officers spend their time monitoring civil activists, harassing them at rallies, and spying on opposition politicians).

The criminal case under the Article 105 (murder) was brought only a month after his body was found due to public attention and pressure. An autopsist discovered an injection track under Timur’s arm but the results of an expertise haven’t been announced yet.

“There are grounds to suspect that the authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria aren’t interested in finding those guilty of Timur Kuashev’s murder, therefore we claim that the investigation of the case must be transferred to Moscow”, claim Nikolai Kavkazsky.

“We continue the signature collection on Change.org and we call everyone to put their signatures for investigation of this murder”