MOSCOW (Reuters) - Five men on trial for murdering Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, an ardent critic of President Vladimir Putin, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in a court case that her family has decried as illegitimate.
Politkovskaya, who angered authorities by investigating high-level corruption and documenting human rights abuses by Russian forces in the North Caucasus, was shot dead in 2006 in the Moscow residential building where she lived.
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