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‘Insignificant’ criminal case that led pensioner to take own life dropped
The criminal case against Nikolai Zakharchenko, a pensioner living in Kabardino-Balkaria, who took his own life after he was accused of storing large quantities of cannabis, was dropped ‘due to its insignificance’. Ruslan Yelmirzokov, the legal representative of the deceased’s wife, told OC Media that the case was dropped on Tuesday. Zakharchenko, 85, was from the city of Nartkala in the east of the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. He took his own life in the early morning of 18 Augus
