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Moscow court sentences Markelov murderer to life

Yevgeniya Khasis and Nikita Tikhonov

13:01 06/05/2011

A Moscow court sentenced ultranationalist Nikita Tikhonov to life in jail on Friday for the murder of human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in 2009.

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Markelov supporters attacked in Novosibirsk
12:47 23/01/2009
Men in black coats attacked anti-Nazis and anarchists at a gathering in Novosibirsk to commemorate lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were murdered in Moscow.

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Markelov, Baburova murder case

Lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova, who worked on the opposition Novaya Gazeta newspaper, were gunned down in broad daylight in downtown Moscow in January 2009. Russia's Investigative Committee believes Baburova was killed as a witness to the murder of Markelov, who was an active member of an anti-fascist movement.