Legal Case of the Week: Supreme Court quashes convictions for the 2009 murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova

Week-ending 10 December 2021 Anastasia Baburova Stanislav Markelov On 8 December 2021 the Russian Supreme Court quashed the convictions of Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis handed down in 2011 for…

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Remember the Date: On 19 January 2009 Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburov were murdered in Moscow

On 19 January 2009 human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were shot dead on Moscow's Prechistenka Street.  An annual march in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova is…

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