Court changed a sentence for murder of the lawyer Stanislas Markelov and journalists Anastasia Baburova

The Supreme court changed a sentence to neo-Nazis to Nikita Aleksandrovich Tikhonov and Eugenia Khasis the Supreme court repeatedly recognized lawful a sentence to the former members of neo-Nazi extremist group "Fighting Organization of the Russian Nationalists" (BORN) to Nikita Aleksandrovich Tikhonov and Eugenia Khasis. About it reports information agency "Interfaks". Court upheld the punishment appointed to neo-Nazis for murder of the lawyer Stanislas Markelov and the journalist periodical e-edition "Novaya gazeta" Anastasia Baburova, but excluded from it punishment for arms trafficking and use of the counterfeit document behind the expiration of limitation periods. Cassation complaints on...