Russia pardons ex-policeman convicted of journalist’s homicide

MOSCOW: Russian authorities have pardoned a former policeman jailed over the 2006 killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya after he fought in Ukraine, his lawyer mentioned on Tuesday.
Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was one in every of 5 individuals jailed in reference to the homicide of Politkovskaya, who labored for the unbiased Novaya Gazeta newspaper. She was shot lifeless within the raise of her Moscow house block aged 48.