Stanislav Markelov
Markelov and Baburova’s Murders One Year Past
By Sean at 19 January, 2010, 9:07 am
One year ago, an assassin in a ski masked shot anti-fascist lawyer Stanislav Markelov in the back in the head near Kropotkinskaya metro. The killer then shot Novaya gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova as she went after him. She died in a hospital shortly thereafter. Both were well known antifascists. The memory of these two figures, however, not only reminds us of the plight of human rights activists and journalists in Russia, but also the specter of Russian fascist violence.
Read More >>Medvedev Meets Novaya’s Muratov, Gorbachev
By Sean at 29 January, 2009, 4:30 pm
There has been alot of criticism of President Medvedev’s and Prime Minister Putin’s silence in regard to the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. Dimitri Medvedev has finally responded. But not in a overtly public manner but via a meeting with Novaya gazeta Editor-in-Chief Dmitri Muratov and former Soviet President and Novaya shareholder Mikhail [...]
Read More >>Consolatory Cops
By Sean at 24 January, 2009, 12:58 am
The opening paragraph of Kommersant’s article on Stanislav Markelov’s funeral reads:
Ostankinskoe cemetery where the jurist Stanislav Markelov was to be buried was heavily guarded. OMON, police buses, and patrol cars. They asked mourners to show the contents of their bags and required them to show documents. There were whispers in the crowd that police feared [...]
Leads on Markelov Case Cold
By Sean at 23 January, 2009, 3:35 pm
A definitive narrative is forming in the Russian mainstream press about the Markelov-Baburova murders. This narrative says that it is unlikely that Colonel Yuriy Budanov has any connection to the murder because he has the most to lose. In fact, the quick finger pointing at Budanov is exactly what those crafty killers want us to [...]
Read More >>Who Killed Stanislav Markelov? Let the Theories Begin!
By Sean at 21 January, 2009, 10:02 am
Stanislav Markelov had a lot of enemies. In addition to representing the Kungayev family, his other clients included: Khimkinskaya Pravda editor Mikhail Beketov (he’s on the verge of death), Chechen Yana Neserkhoyeva, a Nord-Ost hostage accused of helping terrorists in 2002, Zelimkhan Murdalov, a kidnapped Grozny resident who was tortured to death by an OMON [...]
Read More >>Human Rights Lawyer, Journalist Executed in Moscow
By Sean at 19 January, 2009, 4:16 pm
As many already know, human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova were gunned down in Moscow near the Kropotkinskaya metro on Monday afternoon. According to reports, a man in a green ski mask approached Markelov from behind and unloaded a few rounds into his head, execution style. Baburova was seriously injured [...]
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