Kaliningrad's mayor appoints a new advisor who's suspected acting as middleman between the Kremlin a

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Kaliningrad's mayor appoints a new advisor who's suspected acting as middleman between the Kremlin and a murderous nationalist group
Meduza
08:14, 27 april 2018

Kaliningrad Governor Anton Alikhanov has appointed a new construction and housing advisor who apparently was a witness in a 2015 murder trial against a Russian nationalist. Leonid Simunin testified in the case against Ilya Goryachev, who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the killing of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist Anastasia Baburova.

Goryachev’s group, the Russian Nationalists’ Combat Organization, reportedly had contact with the Kremlin through Simunin, who has also served as a pro-Kremlin youth activist and advised separatist leaders in Donetsk. When testifying in 2015, Simunin said he coordinated many projects with Goryachev, but never heard anything about murders or the Russian Nationalists’ Combat Organization.

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