Rule of Law

Even Routine Law Practice is Difficult and Dangerous in Russia

By Allen Pusey

Jul 5, 2009, 09:00 am CST

The courtroom gallery brimmed with lawyers during the trial in January of four men ac­cused of murdering Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta who was gun­ned down in 2006 at the elevator of her Moscow apartment.

The newspaper had paid a high price for its investigations… full story