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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Mystery of men held for Politkovskaya murder

Two suspects are reported to have been arrested by police investigating the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. But her former newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, dismissed the report as "absolutely wrong." Politkovskaya, whose reports exposed human rights abuses in Chechnya, was shot dead in Moscow last October. The men arreatsed are said to be "ethnic Chechens" but there is continuing mystery over the case. (Via Moscow Times)

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