a separate conversation about the key witness, therefore, to the confusing case of ekaterina ponomaryovay, over the past 3 years , during the judicial investigation, the woman constantly changed her testimony, creating the impression that she was simply voicing someone’s words at ponomaryov’s meetings, our colleague, correspondent of the vesti duty department olga shurenkova, the only journalist who managed to talk to such a mysterious witness, then this strange lady was under the state, protection of the personality of ekaterina ponomarev really. very interesting, but i must say that ekaterina ponomareva did not speak after 17 years. she immediately contacted the police as soon as her friends disappeared. this happened back in august 2002. nobody believed her words, but you also need to understand that she came to the selenga police station. at that time, the police ah, according to her . uh. here's what katya told us. in the first interview, according to her, uh, she was faced with an absolute reluctance to be aggressive from the police, if we are to believe the words ekaterina ponomar