BBC article 4/28
Nikita Tikhonov and Yevgenia Khasis were convicted for involvement of the murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova in 2009. The victims worked for Novaya Gazeta, a paper that specializes in human rights. The two assailants were nationalists, so that was apparently the motive. Russian National Unity, a group the papers said was involved that was far-right, denied any involvement. they said the two convicted were never members.
I am glad that the murderers were caught because well justice and everything. But I wonder if there were other reasons they killed them because it doesn't seem that murder should come from different political views. But well that's been happening since the beginning of government.
Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
