9 are charged in death of journalist
Prosecutors have charged nine people, including a lieutenant colonel in Russia’s security service, with involvement in the killing of anti-Kremlin journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the Interfax news agency said.
Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, was shot in October 2006 in her Moscow apartment building.
Russian news agencies quoted a source close to the investigation as saying charges had been filed against Lt. Col. Pavel Ryaguzov of the Federal Security Service -- or FSB, the KGB’s domestic successor -- for abuse of office.
The FSB agent was alleged to have passed along details of the journalist’s address to another suspect, who in turn gave them to the killer, Russian agencies quoted investigators as saying.
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