Novaya Gazeta on the Markelov-Baburova Shooting
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 lawyer.
Lawyer Stanislav Markelov killed and «Novaya gazeta» employee seriously wounded in center of Moscow
The murder of Stanislav Markelov took place in the day in the area of the «Kropotkinskaya» metro station. In the words of eyewitnesses, the criminal shot the lawyer in the head from a pistol with a silencer. «Novaya gazeta» employee Anastasia Baburova, being found at that moment alongside Markelov, attempted to detain the killer, however was wounded likewise by a shot to the head. In serious condition they hospitalized her in the 1st City hospital. She is found in intensive care, doctors are fighting for her life.
