The crime will not be discovered until the commissioner of the Politkovskaya murder is found out, the lawyer says.

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“Both Anna Politkovskaya’s children and Novaya Gazeta, as they have repeatedly stated, will be satisfied with the results of the investigation and will only consider the crime open once the perpetrator has been identified. that all those involved should be identified, “said the lawyer.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has also said that this crime should, of course, be solved.

“Of course, we all want the perpetrators – both commissioners and contractors – to be identified and punished,” Peskov said.

Russia has earned international criticism for not conducting a thorough investigation into the murder. In addition, the murder order is now time-barred in this case.

The issue of releasing the perpetrator of the Politkovskaya murder due to the statute of limitations 15 years after the commission of the crime, in case this person will appear in court, can only be decided by a court, Stavicka pointed out. It is not affected by the investigation.

The 48-year-old Politkovsky was shot in the stairwell of his home in Moscow on October 7, 2006.

Politkovsky was well known for his writings on the events in Chechnya and the North Caucasus, as well as his active criticism of the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin.

She has written extensively on human rights abuses by the Russian army in Chechnya, and shortly before her death, she reported on the atrocities of soldiers under Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

After a lengthy investigation in 2014, several men from Chechnya and the North Caucasus were convicted in this case.

Politkovskaya’s family and former colleagues believe the murder was likely to be politically motivated.

Peskov said he did not want to comment on the work of investigators in the Politkovskaya murder case.

“Everyone knows that many crimes, especially custom crimes, are very difficult to solve, and it often takes many, many years,” a Kremlin spokesman said.

The European Union (EU) called on Russia to ensure that all perpetrators are brought to justice in an “open and transparent trial”.

The EU noted that the anniversary of the Politkovskaya assassination falls at a time “when the independent media and civil society are under unprecedented pressure from the Russian government”.

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