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Prominent Russian human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov was killed Monday afternoon, shot point-blank in the head, police say, as he walked to his car just a mile from the Kremlin. Markelov, 34, had just given a press conference in which he had announced he would continue to fight the early parole of Yury Budanov, a decorated tank commander who had admitted to and was convicted of the strangling death of an 18-year-old Chechen woman in 2000. Anastasia Baburova, 25, a freelance journalist for Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper covering the Budanov case, was also shot as she walked...
...assassinations over the past few years. "This murder shows that political murder [has] become the decisive factor in Russia's social life, and the use of force the main argument against a personality," Sergey Mitrokhin, head of the liberal Yabloko Party, said in a statement. The hit on Markelov, the second such high-profile assassination in the capital's center in five months, "casts us back to the 1990s," Gennady Gudkov, deputy head of the State Duma's Security Committee, told journalists. (See the top 10 crime stories...
Ottawa trade officials think the prospects are slim for much auto business (yawned the Montreal Star: "Coals to Newcastle"), but they do think that Prokhorov's fellow traveling salesmen, Sergei Vishnyakov (foodstuffs and beverages) and Ivan Markelov (musical instruments, watches, toys), might have better luck. Under Canada's 2-to-1 trade pact with Russia signed last April, for every $1 worth of business the Russians drum up on their four-week tour. Canada stands to gain $2 worth of export sales...