A year ago, in Nogaisk, Dagestan, a police lieutenant killed Eradil Asanov, 22, with a shot to the back of the head inside a police station.
But 12 months on, the killer is still at large, and the investigation has made little progress. Even Russia’s General Prosecutor’s Office, it seems, is powerless before Dagestan’s ‘keepers of the peace’.
SOS
In September 2014, Dagestan’s Investigative Committee reported that they had solved a crime committed in the Nogaisk district, 300km north of Makhachkala. Five months prior, the body of a 17-year-old girl had been found near the village of Batyr-Murza, Nogaisk. As the investigation reported, the girl had been raped and strangled by 38-year old local resident.
