A cold day in Moscow with the murder of a lawyer

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In a frightening echo of the killing of 2006’s murder of Anna Politkovskaya a very prominent Russian lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, was assassinated in broad daylight in Moscow yesterday. The speculation is that Markelov was targeted for his human rights activities. We turn to James Rodgers, the BBC’s Moscow correspondent, for more on this disturbing event.

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