Stanislav Markelov (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stanislav Yuryevich Markelov (Russian: 20 May 1974 - 19 January 2009) was a human rights lawyer and journalist who wrote investigative articles on Chechnya. Markelov had been the attorney for the family of Elza Kungaeva, a young Chechen woman killed by Russian colonel Yuri Budanov, who was released from prison in mid-January, 15 months before his original sentence was to end. Markelov was murdered on 19 January 2009 in Moscow.Markelov was a president of the Russian Rule of Law Institute.[1] He represented Anna Politkovskaya who was gunned down in Moscow in 2006, Mikhail Beketov, the editor of a pro-opposition newspaper who was severely beaten in November 2008 and many Chechen civilians who were tortured. He also defended people who were victims of the Moscow theater hostage crisis