From the Washington Post’s coverage of the acquittal of defendants in the Anna Politkovskaya trial:

The verdict came one month after a well-known human rights lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, and a student journalist, Anastasia Baburova, were gunned down together in central Moscow. Colleagues and family members said the acquittal sent a signal that such political violence will continue to go unpunished in Russia.

“I thought after studying the case records, and I still believe, that all four people who were released by the jury today were involved in my mother’s murder in one way or another,” Ilya Politkovsky said.