Suspects charged over murder of Russian journalist
Anna Politkovskaya was a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian prosecutors have formally charged at least four of 10 suspects detained over the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya, a defence lawyer says.
Russian prosecutor-general Yuri Chaika said on Monday 10 people had been detained and anti-Kremlin forces abroad had ordered the killing of Ms Politkovskaya to discredit President Vladimir Putin...
Ms Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead in her block of flats on October 7 last year.
A senior editor at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper where Ms Politkovskaya worked, Sergei Sokolov, said he did not think the crime had been solved...
"The question of the person who ordered this killing has not been worked out in full - the interpretation of the prosecutor-general is more political than judicial."
Mr Chaika said on Monday said no political pressure had been exerted on prosecutors.
He said Ms Politkovskaya was killed by an organised crime group led by an ethnic Chechen and including at least five serving and former law enforcement officers.
- Reuters
August 28, 2007
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