MOSCOW. Oct 31 (Interfax) - Moscow on Saturday slammed a decision by Estonia's prosecution service to quash proceedings against Estonian citizen Mikhail Gorshkow, a Nazi collaborator during World War II who is suspected of complicity in killing about 3,000 men, women and children in a Jewish ghetto in Belarus.
"References to the alleged impossibility of establishing Gorshkow's involvement in the murder of more than 3,000 Jews in the Slutsk ghetto are groundless given the fact that authorities in the United States, where Gorshkow lived earlier, have provided all necessary information about this," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.
"This position of the Estonian criminal investigation authorities on someone whom the Simon Wiesenthal Center considers one of the main Nazi criminals cannot be qualified otherwise than as an insult to the memory of victims of fascism and blatant disregard for the rulings of the Nuremberg Tribunal, which are an inseparable part of the modern world legal space," Lukashevich said.