15:03, June 30, 2015
Russia's Supreme Court has upheld the life sentences of two men convicted of the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
The two men were among five Chechen nationals convicted of the crime last year.
The verdict was originally given on June 9 2014, but an appeal by the five was heard by the Supreme Court last week.
Rustam Makhmudov, who shot Politkovskaya, and his uncle Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, who organized the group responsible for arranging the murder, were both sentenced last June to life imprisonment.
The three others convicted for involvement in the killing – former policeman Sergei Khadzhikurbanov as well as the brothers of Politkovskaya's assassin, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov – received sentences of 20, 14 and 12 years respectively.
Armenian News
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