Nikita Tikhonov and Yevgenia Khasis listening to their sentences Friday. An ultranationalist was sentenced to life in prison, and his girlfriend received an 18-year sentence for the brazen daylight killing of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and a Novaya Gazeta reporter. Nikita Tikhonov, 31, received the maximum sentence after the court convicted him of gunning down Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. Tikhonov’s 26-year-old girlfriend, Yevgenia Khasis, was […]