Almost eight years after the gruesome murder of Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most respected investigative journalists, Moscow’s highest criminal court has finally sentenced five men to prison, two of them for life. The court ruled Monday that these men were part of a conspiracy to assassinate Ms. Politkovskaya in her apartment block on Oct. 7, 2006. These convictions signal some progress in Russia’s glacial investigations of the murder, but the case is not closed.
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