TODAY: Putin and Tymoshenko sign 10-year gas deal, networks to return to working order in 36 hours; Medvedev sanctions countries selling arms to Georgia; Human Rights Watch calls for probe into death of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova. ...
Yet another human rights advocate killed in the capital of Russia. Lawyer Stanislav Markelov was shot on Prechistenka street in the center of Moscow. Stanislav was only 34 years old, but he was well known not only in the milieu of human rights adv...
It would seem odd that your average extremist ultra-nationalist would use a professional silencer. This comes from RFE/RL: Svetlana Gannushkina of Russia’s Memorial human rights center told RFE/RL’s Russian Service that Markelov&...
Today’s murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov was preceded by many clear warnings and physical threats, some indirect and others quite overt. In addition to being an outspoken human rights activist with a focus on Ingushetia, the South Caucasu...
Grigory Pasko has contacted us to inform that Russian media is reporting that Anastasia Baburova, the young freelance reporter from Novaya Gazeta who was accompanying Stanislav Markelov, has died in hospital while receiving urgent medical care for...
In light of the slaying of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, we are digging into the archives of older news reports to inform our readers of the story of former colonel Yury Budanov, whose release on parole Markelov spent his final days fighting. I...
The following is a translation, hot off the press, of an article posted to Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper where Anastasia Baburova was employed. Baburov was accompanying Stanislav Markelov when an attacker shot them both, fatally wounding the ...
Lawyers for Yury Budanov (photo), the former colonel released on bail, have told Interfax that he was not involved in arranging the assassination of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov. The following is a translation from Interfax: “In hi...
Russian newspaper Kommersant has published five photos on the Stanislav Markelov story, four from the crime scene, and one from earlier. They are not for the faint of heart.
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