The trial of Mikhail Suprun has become the latest cause célèbre in Russia's continuing history wars. A trumped up charge, a sloppily worded article in the Criminal Code: the case should never have come to court. Now the verdict is about to be handed down - though the expected bad publicity is being kept for after the election - and access to the truth is once more restricted, says Catriona Bass
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