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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Search Search: Russia urged to find journalist's killers AFP - Friday, February 20 MOSCOW, (AFP) - - Russia came under international pressure Friday to find the killers of journalist Anna Politkovskaya after four men charged in connection with her murder were acquitted by a Moscow court. ADVERTISEMENT Prosecutors vowed to appeal over the way the case was conducted after a jury acquitted the suspects on Thursday, in a verdict that came after three months of hearings that failed to shed light on the 2006 murder. None of the four accused had been charged with pulling the trigger or being the mastermind of the killing of the investigative reporter, who was highly critical of Russia's strongman and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The United States called on Russia to continue the investigation. "We regret that her murder is remaining unsolved," said US State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid. "We urge the Russians to try and find those who are responsible and bring them to justice as quickly as possible." A French foreign ministry spokesman said it was essential that her killers be caught. "The family of Anna Politkovskaya and her colleagues have a right to justice. The Russian people have a right to the truth," the spokesman said. After the verdicts, the Politkovskaya family's lawyer, Karinna Moskalenko, complained that authorities "have neither found the person who ordered the killing, the organisers nor the people who committed the crime." State prosecutor Yulia Safina said the prosecution planned to go to the court of appeal to "complain about the infringements that took place in the course of the court's examination of the case." Relatives of the accused cried "Bravo! Well done!" and "Thank you!" as the verdicts were read out. By contrast, Politkovskaya's son and daughter listened to the verdicts in silence. The defendants hugged each other inside the courtroom cage before being released. "Justice has been done," said defence lawyer Murad Mussayev. "The jury showed their principles and there has been an honest verdict." Chechen brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov had been accused of driving the killer to the scene of the murder of the Kremlin critic. Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, a former police investigator had been charged with providing logistical assistance for the murder. Also acquitted was Pavel Ryaguzov, a former agent of the FSB security service not directly accused of being part of the murder but of extortion in another aspect of the case. "The Politkovskaya verdict tops the long history of inability of Russia's authorities to provide safety to embattled journalists," said Miklos Haraszti, media representative for Europe's security body OSCE. "This amounts to a practical impunity for the murder and physical assault of those covering corruption and human rights issues," he added. International press watchdog Reporters Without Borders said the trial had been marked by "incoherence and opacity" from the outset. "Everything is still to do," it said in a statement. Her family also criticised the verdicts. "I think that all four of them are linked to the murder of my mother in one way or another," Politkovskaya's son Ilya Politkovsky told reporters alongside his sister Vera. "Their degree of culpability needed to be proved in court. The prosecution was not able to do this." During the hearings the defence team pointed out that the suspects' DNA had not been found on the weapon and that phone calls made by the accused at the time did not prove their presence at the murder scene. Politkovskaya was shot dead in the lift of her Moscow apartment building on October 7, 2006 in an apparent contract killing after returning from a shopping trip to a Moscow store. Her Novaya Gazeta newspaper was one of the few media outlets to voice criticism of the Kremlin. She had been critical of the actions of then-president Putin in war-torn Chechnya, making numerous trips to the ravaged republic to uncover human rights abuses. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Enlarge Photo A woman lays flowers at a memorial to slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya. 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