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MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti) - The case...

18-year-old Elsa Kungayeva three years earlier and was sentenced to 10 years in jail. He was paroled earlier this month.

Besides representing Kungayeva's family, Markelov had started an independent investigation into a near-fatal attack on Mikhail Beketov, editor-in-chief of the Khimki Pravda local newspaper, who fought a campaign to protect a forest near Moscow from destruction by real estate developers.

The Czech Republic, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, called on the Russian authorities on Tuesday "to investigate Markelov's murder, as well as previous attacks on human rights activists, journalists and members of nongovernmental organizations, and to bring the guilty to justice."



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