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MOSCOW — A young Russian nationalist and his wife were convicted Thursday in the particularly brazen murders of a prominent human-rights lawyer and a journalist two years ago. Nikita Tikhonov, 30, was found guilty of the fatal shootings, while his wife, Yevgenia Khasis, 26, served as lookout.
The slain lawyer, Stanislav Markelov, 34, had worked to jail violent nationalists. The journalist, Anastasia Baburova, 25, was a freelancer who happened to be interviewing Markelov when both were gunned down in broad daylight on a busy Moscow street near the Kremlin. Both had connections to the loose network of Russian groups opposed to the nationalist and neo-fascist groups that have proliferated here since the fall of the Soviet Union.
