A Moscow court has sentenced a Russian right-wing nationalist to life imprisonment for the murder of a prominent human rights lawyer and a journalist.
Nikita Tikhonov was found guilty of shooting advocate Stanislav Markelov in central Moscow in 2009. A journalist, Anastasia Baburova, who was with him at the time, was also shot dead.
The accused's partner, Yevgenia Khasis, was also jailed for 18 years for helping to kill the pair.
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