August 7th, 2009
A Russian court in Moscow refused a request from the family of Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya to halt a retrial of three men accused of being accomplices in her murder. Lawyers for the family of Politkovskaya, who was gunned down outside her apartment in 2006, had asked for the case to be returned to prosecutors and merged with an investigation into the mastermind behind the murder. The trial will resume in September. Read more
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June 25th, 2009
Russia’s Supreme Court has overturned the acquital of three men charged with the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya. A retrial has been ordered
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May 12th, 2009
Is the Evening Standard headed for the same fate as Alexander Lebedev’s under-resourced Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta? Andrei Soldatov reports
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March 31st, 2009
Evening Standard and
Novaya Gazeta owner Alexander Lebedev is to sue
Forbes magazine for libel after it claimed he had lost $2.5 billlion in the financial crisis.
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February 19th, 2009
The acquittals in the Anna Politkovskaya murder case highlight a culture of impunity that must be brought to an end, writes
Tanya Lokshina
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February 4th, 2009
Yet another journalist has been brutally attacked in Russia. Maria Eismont reports
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January 23rd, 2009
Bill Bowring looks at the possible motives behind the murder of Anastasiya Baburova and Stanislav Markelov
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January 23rd, 2009
Alexander Lebedev has announced that he has requested journalists on his
Novaya Gazeta newspaper be allowed to carry guns.
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