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A supporter of the ''Russia Without Lawlessness and Corruption'' opposition coalition holds a portrait of assassinated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya during a rally in Moscow October 9, 2010.
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By Thomas Grove
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Fri Oct 7, 2011 11:32am EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators said on Friday they would press charges against a man they accuse of arranging the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, five years to the day after the Kremlin critic's death.
The announcement indicated authorities are eager to display progress toward solving a murder that blackened then-President Vladimir Putin's reputation and underscored the dangers faced by
Russians fighting against corruption and rights abuses.
Investigators said they believe Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, a native of Chechnya who is serving a prison term for another slaying, was contracted in July 2006 to organize Politkovskaya's killing.
"New evidence has come to light in the investigation into the murder of ... Anna Politkovskaya," federal Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said in Berlin during a visit to Germany.
"Gaitukayev received the order to kill Anna Politkovskaya in exchange for money," he said.
Markin said authorities were still trying to determine who was ultimately behind the killing of Politikovskaya, 58, who was
shot dead in her Moscow apartment building on her return home from grocery shopping on October 7, 2006.
Her relatives and former colleagues say justice will not be done until whoever had her killed is tried and punished.
FREE SPEECH
The case came to symbolize the muffling of free speech and corruption of the political and judicial system during the 2000-2008 presidency of Putin.
Putin is now prime minister and plans to return to the Kremlin in a March 2012 presidential election.
Rights groups say 19 journalists have been victims of contract killings in Russia since 2000, the year Putin was first elected president, and none of the masterminds of the murders has been jailed.
Politkovskaya won awards and made enemies with her reporting of high-level corruption across Russia and rights abuses in Chechnya, where Russia has waged two wars against separatists since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
Rights groups and her Novaya Gazeta colleagues have criticized the slow pace of the investigation, which was nearly shelved after a jury acquitted three defendants in 2009.
The Supreme Court later threw out the decision and returned the case to prosecutors.
The emergence of Gaitukayev as a suspect came after a series of developments this year, and charging him would bring the authorities closer to new trial.
Suspected triggerman Rustam Makhmudov, a brother of two of the men acquitted in 2009, was arrested in May after years on the run.
Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, the ex-head of a police surveillance unit who had been a witness in the case, was arrested in August and has been charged for his alleged role -- assembling those who carried out the slaying and giving the killer the gun.
Markin said another man, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who was also acquitted in the initial trial, is to be charged for his alleged role helping track Politikovskaya's movements in the days before her murder.
Markin said Gaitukayev was meant to be charged on Friday, but that his refusal to accept a lawyer had delayed the indictment, Russian news agency Interfax reported.
(Additional reporting By Olga Petrova in Berlin; editing by Steve Gutterman)
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