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• March 13, 2008: Russian human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko is seen in her Strasbourg office. Moskalenko says she and her children are ill after a suspicious substance was found in their car in France. The incident has kept Karinna Moskalenko away from preliminary hearings at a Moscow court in the trial of four men in connection with the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
• March 13, 2008: Russian human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko is seen in her Strasbourg office. Moskalenko says she and her children are ill after a suspicious substance was found in their car in France. The incident has kept Karinna Moskalenko away from preliminary hearings at a Moscow court in the trial of four men in connection with the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
• March 13, 2008: Russian human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko is seen in her Strasbourg office. Moskalenko says she and her children are ill after a suspicious substance was found in their car in France. The incident has kept Karinna Moskalenko away from preliminary hearings at a Moscow court in the trial of four men in connection with the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
• Oct. 15: Lawyer Anna Stavitskaya speaks to the media outside a military court in Moscow after the first procedural hearings in the trial of four men in connection with the politically charged killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, whose reports on human rights abuses in Russia and especially Chechnya embarrassed the Kremlin and its allies, was shot to death in her Moscow apartment building in October 2006.
• Oct. 15: A guard closes a door of the Moscow Regional Military Court where a preliminary hearing is going on. Karinna Moskalenko, a prominent Russian human rights lawyer has fallen ill after a suspicious substance was found in her car in France, keeping her away from hearings Wednesday in the trial of suspects in the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in military court.
• Oct. 7: People gather in a heavy rain holding portraits of slain Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya during a rally to remember the second anniversary of her killing in downtown Moscow. Hundreds of people gathered in Moscow to remember Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya on the second anniversary of her killing. Politkovskaya was shot in her apartment building in an October 2006 killing that investigators have linked to her reporting.
• Oct. 15: Ilya, son of slain investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, stands outside a military court in Moscow after the first procedural hearings in the trial of four men in connection with the politically charged killing of Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, whose reports on human rights abuses in Russia and especially Chechnya embarrassed the Kremlin and its allies, was shot to death in her Moscow apartment building in October 2006.