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.
There have been some conflicting reports as to the identity of the woman who was accompanying lawyer Stanislav Markelov when he was assassinated today. So far, most reports indicate that it was Anastasia Baburova, a 24-year-old reporter from...
One of Russia’s bravest and most highly regarded human rights lawyers, Stanislav Markelov, has been assassinated today by an unknown gunman at point blank range on Prechistenka Street in Moscow. Anastasia Baburova, a woman accompanying...
For some, it is going to get worse before it gets better. From Ian Bremmer on RCP: With oil prices well below what the Russians can afford, but Putin’s (& Medvedev’s) popularity still high, the initial moves have been to cons...
(Editor’s note: RA drafted this piece on Friday, before the murder of Stanislav Markelov, the lawyer representing the family of Budanov’s victim) To describe the Russian justice system as flawed and dysfunctional would be an extremely ...
The Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, has accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of making Europe more dependent on Russia by giving her support to the Nord Stream pipeline. The EU is unlikely to be able diversify energy supplies ...
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