Murder of Markelov and Baburova

2009 CE.

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On 19 January 2009, two Russian journalists, Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov, were shot and killed by members of the neo-Nazi organization Battle Organization of Russian Nationalists. Baburova became the fourth Novaya Gazeta journalist to be killed since 2000.

Text from the Wikipedia article Murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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