Moscow police detained on Tuesday tens of...

Human rights lawyer Markelov, 34, and Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova, 25, were shot on January 19, 2009 in downtown Moscow, just a short distance from the Christ the Savior Cathedral. Markelov died at the scene and Baburova lost her struggle for life shortly afterwards in hospital.

Last November, Nikolai Tikhonov, 29, and Yevgenia Khasis, 24, members of a radical neo-Nazi nationalist group, were charged with the murders, which made headlines all over the world and once again highlighted the dangers faced by journalists and human rights activists in modern Russia.

The Moscow authorities had given permission for a rally in central Moscow, but police moved in when a group broke away and began marching along Petrovsky Boulevard to the Chistie Prudi area.

Police said some 200 people had taken part in the rally. But Novaya Gazeta reported that 500 people had braved minus 20 degrees Celsius temperatures and "some ten buses full of OMON riot police" to mark

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