Background
The term "Novgorod Case" was first used by the Russian news agency REGNUM on April 20, 2007 (Russian). The main events of the case are taking place in the City of Veliky Novgorod, Russia.
There are three people in Antonina's family. Her husband, Kirill Martynov, is a journalist and a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Antonina, 22 and temporarily unemployed, is taking care of her daughter, Alisa, born in 2004 to Antonina's first marriage.
Until mid-August 2007, the investigation was conducted by the Major Case Investigator Mr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Kolodkin, of Veliky Novgorod (MCI or MCI Kolodkin henceforth).
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