ABSTRACT
At the very end of the investigation of charges under Article 190-1 of the Russian Criminal Code, new charges under Article 191-4 of the Uzbek Code and Article 70 of the Russian Code were added. Grigorenko's defence counsel, S. V. Kallistratova, learned about this for the first time at the trial, which began on 3 February 1970. Both the defence counsel and Grigorenko's wife were refused permission to see him before the trial. The chairman of the court, Romanova, denied the defence's petition requesting that Grigorenko be summoned to court, that the trial be transferred to Moscow and that a third forensic psychiatric commission be appointed. Zinaida Mikhailovna Grigorenko was informed that she could represent her husband at the trial and that she could familiarise herself with the documents of the case. (On the the next day it turned out that she was not permitted to see the case records without a lawyer. Since S. V. Kallistratova had to return to Moscow, Z. M. Grigorenko had only a few hours on February 4 to acquaint herself with the case (twenty-one volumes, 6,000 pages). The trial was then postponed until the 'recovery of the psychiatric experts' Morozov and Lunts, who had been summoned but had not appeared in court. (Moreover, for unknown reasons, twenty-two of the twenty-five witnesses called to court failed to appear.)
