Russian attorney Stanislav Markelov was shot dead today in Moscow. He had represented the family of an 18-year old Chechen girl who was strangled to death by a Russian army officer in 2000. The BBC reports that "a newspaper journalist who was with him, Anastasia Baburova from the Novaya Gazeta, was badly wounded in the attack and died a few hours later in hospital."
Anastasia was 25 years old.
