A Moscow jury found four defendants guilty of setting a bomb in August 2006 that killed 14 foreign market traders at the Cherkizov market, according to an April 30, 2008 report by the Interfax news agency. The defendants were found guilty of terrorism, 14 murders (four of them children) and the attempted murder of the 61 people who were injured in the blast. The jury added that they do not deserve a reduced sentence from the judge, who will announce their sentence on May 12. One of the defendants was also found guilty of participating in the murder of an Armenian student at the Pushkinskaya metro station. The Interfax report added that there are a total of eight defendants, who also face charges of "participation in a criminal group" and weapons charges, along with exploding eight bombs around the city, including an attack on a mosque, but it is not clear from the report if they were found guilty of these charges. No hate crimes charges were mentioned in the report, despite the clear intent on the part of the defendants to murder ethnic minorities.

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