socialmedian: Russian far-right activists arrested for murder of journalist and lawyer

Add News Flash

User-submitted headlines for this story

Clips

Russian far-right activists arrested for murder of journalist and lawyer

Source: The Guardian

Nov 05, 2009

Summary

Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova were gunned down in Moscow earlier this year

Investigators today said they had solved one of Russia's most notorious killings and had arrested two far-right activists for the murders of the human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist Anastasia Baburova.

Markelov – a friend of the assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya – and Baburova were gunned down in January in central Moscow. They had been walking towards the metro when a hitman shot Markelov in the back of the head. Baburova may have tried to grab the assassin and was also shot, dying in hospital.

Today Russia's federal security service (FSB) named their killers as Eugenia Khasis, 24, and Nikita Tikhonov, 29. While Khasis appears to have no previous convictions, Tikhonov is a veteran neo-Nazi activist wanted in connection with the murder of an anti-fascist campaigner.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, citing FSB sources, the young woman and young man worked in tandem. Khasis acted as a "spotter" – trailing Markelov a

...Read the full article

Comments (0)

Add Your Comment