Defendant In High-Profile Russian Murder Trial ‘Slashes Wrists’

MOSCOW — A defendant in a high-profile murder trial in Moscow is reported to have tried to slash his wrists in his cell, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. Nikita Tikhonov and his partner Yevgenia Khasis went on trial in February for the killings of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were shot dead in […]