As the newspaper «Izvestiya» recently reported, with a reference to its «own investigation», new, sensational details have been uncovered about the death of the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist Anastasia Baburova. In the opinion of the journalist Perekrest, who is already familiar to readers of our blog, the key to solving the crime may be not in the lawyer’s professional activity, but in his romantic connection with the murdered journalist.

In the opinion of the all-knowing and guessing-about-everything Perekrest, Markelov and Baburova were acquainted for a long time and had maintained the closest of relations. Citing the same kind of murky and unreliable sources as in his book about YUKOS and Khodorkovsky «What is Mikhail Khodorkovsky sitting for», Perekrest writes about how Markelov,«a famous and respected person firmly standing on his feet, took care, as well as he could, of the young journalist, who was younger than him by ten years». He recalls that on a recent journey beyond the border, the lawyer slept next to the journalist in a sports hall, where the organizers of one of the seminars had lodged the participants of the journey (see photo).