Moscow murders

User drugoi has posted photographs from an event in Moscow today in memory of murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov (34) and journalist Anastasia Baburova (25). From Novaya Gazeta via Robert Amsterdam’s blog:

The murder of Stanislav Markelov took place in the day in the area of the “Kropotkinskaya» metro station. In the words of eyewitnesses, the criminal shot the lawyer in the head from a pistol with a silencer. “Novaya gazeta» employee Anastasia Baburova, being found at that moment alongside Markelov, attempted to detain the killer, however was wounded likewise by a shot to the head. [Baburova later died from the injuries].

(photo link via Global Voices).