Investigation into Politkovskaya's killing to be reopened
The drawn-out state investigation and chaotic trial of her murder has from the first been criticized as a farce by Anna Politkovskaya's family and friends because the men on trial were only loosely charged with guilt in the crime.
Freed from blame were two Chechen brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov of being accomplices and former police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov of helping the killer get away.
A fourth defendant, Pavel Ryaguzov, was acquitted in a separate case.
Ryaguzov, an agent of Russia's FSB security service was accused of providing the killer with Politkovskaya's address.
But the alleged gunman, a third Chechen brother Rustam Makhmudov, was never on trial and reportedly fled to Western Europe on a fake passport.
No-one has been directly linked to ordering thecontract-style killing of Politkovskaya, gunned down in front of her Moscow apartment in October 2006.
Politkovskaya was Russia's most prominent journalist, winning awards for her reporting for daily Novaya Gazeta on human rights abuses by Russian soldiers during tow wars fought by the Kremlin in Chechnya.
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