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| MOSCOW — Moscow’s highest criminal court on Monday sentenced five men to prison, including two to life sentences, for the 2006 murder of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. | MOSCOW — Moscow’s highest criminal court on Monday sentenced five men to prison, including two to life sentences, for the 2006 murder of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. |
| Ms. Politkovskaya’s murder, a contract killing that many believe was prompted by her reporting in the Russian republic of Chechnya, was the most high-profile killing of a journalist in Russia in the past decade. | Ms. Politkovskaya’s murder, a contract killing that many believe was prompted by her reporting in the Russian republic of Chechnya, was the most high-profile killing of a journalist in Russia in the past decade. |
| Ms. Politkovskaya was 48 when she was shot to death in the elevator of her Moscow apartment block. She had been highly critical of the Kremlin’s policies in Chechnya and of the republic’s autocratic leader, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, for the human rights abuses taking place there. | Ms. Politkovskaya was 48 when she was shot to death in the elevator of her Moscow apartment block. She had been highly critical of the Kremlin’s policies in Chechnya and of the republic’s autocratic leader, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, for the human rights abuses taking place there. |
| The sentences for the men, who were convicted last month, were the toughest punishment to date in the long-running investigation into Ms. Politkovskaya’s death, but it is still unclear who paid for and ordered the killing. The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country’s highest investigative body, has said that it is still trying to determine who orchestrated the killing of Ms. Politkovskaya. | The sentences for the men, who were convicted last month, were the toughest punishment to date in the long-running investigation into Ms. Politkovskaya’s death, but it is still unclear who paid for and ordered the killing. The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country’s highest investigative body, has said that it is still trying to determine who orchestrated the killing of Ms. Politkovskaya. |
| On Monday, Judge Pavel Melyokhin sentenced Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, the organizer of the team that murdered Ms. Politkovskaya, and his nephew Rustam Makhmudov, the gunman, to life sentences in prison. | On Monday, Judge Pavel Melyokhin sentenced Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, the organizer of the team that murdered Ms. Politkovskaya, and his nephew Rustam Makhmudov, the gunman, to life sentences in prison. |
| Ibragim Makhmudov was sentenced to 12 years and Dzhabarail Makhmudov to 14 years for following Ms. Politkovskaya’s movements the day she was killed. The two men are brothers of Rustam Makhmudov. | Ibragim Makhmudov was sentenced to 12 years and Dzhabarail Makhmudov to 14 years for following Ms. Politkovskaya’s movements the day she was killed. The two men are brothers of Rustam Makhmudov. |
| A fifth man, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, was sentenced to 20 years for serving as a middleman in the crime. | |
| The lawyers representing Ms. Politkovskaya’s son and daughter could not be immediately reached for comment. | The lawyers representing Ms. Politkovskaya’s son and daughter could not be immediately reached for comment. |