Defendants in Moscow riots case ask to question interior minister.

MOSCOW, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Defendants in the case over mass
disturbances in Moscow's Manezhnaya Square last December asked the court
on Thursday to question Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, Moscow police
chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev and former Moscow police spokesman Viktor
Biryukov.
"Today, defendant Ruslan Khubayev filed a petition to summon to the
trial Nurgaliyev, Kolokotsev and Biryukov, and question them as witnesses.
Other defendants and their lawyers supported the petition," said Dmitry
Agranovsky, who represents the interests of one of the defendants.
According to Agranovsky, Kolokoltsev and Biryukov were in Manezhnaya
Square during the rights, therefore they witnesses those events.
"As for Nurgaliyev, the defendants want him to tell the court where he
got the information that it was leftist radicals who staged the riots,"
the lawyer said.