Two Russian far-right activists were convicted on Thursday for the 2009 murders of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. Markelov, a friend of the assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and Baburova, who worked for the liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta, were gunned down in January 2009 in central Moscow. Nikita Tikhonov and Yevgeniya Khasis, […]