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Dmitry Muratov, editor of Novaya Gazeta, described the horrific deaths of his reporters. He was invited to speak by the Helsinki Commission on the erosion of independent media in the Russian Federation. After the communist totalitarian regime fell in...
Tags: Russian Federation, independent media, Dmitry Muratov, Grigory Shvedov, U.S. Helsinki Commission, Maxim Trudolyubov, Anna Politkovskaya, Yuri Shchekochikhin, human rights, russians journalists, Russia, Moscow, Beslan school hostage crisis, Anastasia Baburova, Stanislav Markelov, Vladimir Putin, Moscow theater hostage crisis, Novaya Gazeta
A simmering confrontation between far-right youths and ant-racist activists has erupted into Moscow's streets after the fatal shooting of an anti-racist activist known as the Bonebreaker...Former punk rocker Ivan Khutorskoi, 26, provided security for...
Tags: Young Russia, Russian, Moscow, racist activists, Ivan Khutorskoi, youth group, Russia, Anti-fascism, Skinhead, Political movements, Stanislav Markelov, Neo-Nazism, Social Issues
A young antiracist campaigner who frequently clashed with Russian nationalists has been killed in Moscow in what investigators and analysts suggest is probably part of an increasingly violent conflict between ultranationalists and groups that oppose them.
Tags: Moscow, Russian, Russia, Porsche Cayenne, Porsche, Law Crime, SOVA Center, Racism in Russia, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, Social Issues, Pravda, Komsomolsky, Eastern Bloc media, Skinhead, Subcultures, politics, Nuclear terrorism, Crimes, Hate crime, RIA Novosti
On Tuesday and Wednesday, 3 and 4 November, the first suspects in the Markelov-Baburova murder case were arrested...Investigators had been hard at work, both among nationalist groups and the public as a whole, before the arrests were made. The names...
Tags: Yevgenia Khasis, Markelov-Baburova, Nikita Tikhonov, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, Alexander Bortnikov, nationalist group, defence attorney, Sergey Sokolov Medvedev, FSB, Russia, Moscow, Federal Security Service, Prosecutor, Novaya Gazeta, Law Crime
Lawyers Stanislav Markelov, along with Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova, were shot last January after leaving a press conference detailing crimes committed in the North Caucasus.
Tags: Moscow, human rights, Russian, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, rights lawyer, lawyer stanislav
KGB spy Alexander Lebedev has pledged to spend tens of millions of pounds to ensure the survival of his newly acquired London Evening Standard newspaper. "Tens of millions of pounds will be invested over at least two years. I want this newspaper to survive...
Tags: Alexander Lebedev, London Evening Standard, Russian, Novaya Gazeta, Stanislav Markelov, Mr Lebedev, Moscow, British, kgb agent, KGB
AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) With a policeman's boots seen in the foreground, people lay flowers Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, at the site in Moscow where human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburov were gunned down the previous...
Tags: Moscow Anastasia Baburova, The Moscow Times, Russian, Stanislav Markelov, Kremlin, lawyer stanislav, Czech EU
Stanislav Markelov, 34, was shot in the head by a man using a pistol with a silencer in the middle of the afternoon on a busy Moscow street. Markelov worked as a lawyer for Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper whose special correspondent Anna Politkovskaya was...
Tags: Stanislav Markelov, Russian, Moscow Helsinki Group, rights lawyer, human rights, Chechnya, chechen woman, masked gunman, broad daylight, early release