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| Three men have been charged over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, investigators have said. | Three men have been charged over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, investigators have said. |
| Politkovskaya, a prominent Kremlin critic, was shot dead outside her home in the capital on 7 October 2006. | Politkovskaya, a prominent Kremlin critic, was shot dead outside her home in the capital on 7 October 2006. |
| Russia's Investigative Committee said a fourth man, an officer with the country's security service, had also been charged with abuse of office. | Russia's Investigative Committee said a fourth man, an officer with the country's security service, had also been charged with abuse of office. |
| Last month officials also named the man suspected of firing the gun as Rustam Makhmudov. He remains at large. | |
| The three men charged over the murder are Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, and Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov. | |
| Case continues | |
| The committee did not say what the motive was for Politkovskaya's killing, or specify the suspects' roles in the murder. | |
| The murder of Politkovskaya, who wrote for the small-circulation Novaya Gazeta, shocked the international community but did not register widely in Russia. | |
| Human rights groups accused the Russian authorities of failing to protect journalists. | |
| The former colleagues of Anna Politkovskaya, who wrote frequently exposing human rights abuses committed in Chechnya, said the case would continue. | |
| "I have said many times that this is only the first part of the case," said Sergei Sokolov, the investigative newspaper's deputy editor. | |
| "It's not over yet, there will be a second and a third part." | |
| Charges against a fifth man, a Chechen local government official who allegedly provided the address of Anna Politkovskaya, have been dropped due to a lack of evidence. |