Prosecutors asked a court on Thursday to jail for life an ultranationalist convicted of murdering a human rights lawyer and a journalist, and to hand a 20-year sentence to his girlfriend and convicted accomplice, Interfax reported. A jury ruled last week that Nikita Tikhonov shot dead lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta reporter Anastasia Baburova in downtown Moscow in 2009. His girlfriend, Yevgenia Khasis, was convicted of assisting in the killings. Both suspects […]