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When Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was escorted into a glass-walled cage before a court hearing in Moscow, on June 3, 2013. Although convicted in the assassination of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, he has been pardoned after fighting in the war in Ukraine. [Reuters]
A former Russian detective who was convicted over the 2006 murder of a Russian investigative journalist has been pardoned in exchange for fighting in Ukraine, his lawyer said.
Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was given a 20-year prison sentence in 2014 for his role in organizing the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known reporter at the since-banned independent Russian outlet Novaya Gazeta.
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