Ex-Police Colonel Charged Over Murder of Politkovskaya

Retired Russian police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov has been charged in connection with the 2006 murder of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya. The authorities also named a convicted criminal, Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, as an organiser of the killing. It was announced that Lieutenant Colonel Pavlyuchenkov, then head of surveillance at Moscow's main internal affairs directorate, ordered his subordinates to follow the journalist to identify her schedule and commuting routes, and then shared the information with the other members of the gang. The colonel later passed the murder weapon to the suspected gunman.

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