Russia - Five convicted of Politkovskaya murder but instigators still free

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A Moscow court has finally foundfive men guilty of planning and executing Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya's October 2006 murder but the instigators are still at large. The five men that a jury convicted on 20 May are three Chechen brothers – Rustam, Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov – their uncle, Lom-Ali Gaitukayev (an alleged member of the criminal underworld), and a former interior ministry employee, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov. The court did not identify either a motive or a (...)

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