MATERIAL EVIDENCE GIVEN TO RUSSIAN EXPERTS

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[06:25 pm] 03 February, 2009

The crime expert examination center of the Russian Interior Affairs
Ministry has been assigned to carry out a trigger expert examination
that was added as part of the inquiry of the criminal case under
examination by the RA special investigative service in relation to
the events of March 1.

According to the press speaker of the Prosecutor General’s office,
the questions for experts regard the possible similarity of the
"Cheryomukha-7" type bullets.

Based on that, it is expected that the examination will reveal
whether there is a developed methodology and if it is possible to
draw comparisons between the gas grenade and the gun that was fired
and whether there are useful traces of the plastic heads on the gas
grenades of the "Chermyomukha-7" that was taken out of the dead and
injured bodies of people who were shot on March 1-2.

By the decision of the examiner, experts have been given the gas
grenades and the plastic heads in six packages of the "Chermyomukha-7"
taken out of the bodies of citizens as material evidence.