People lay flowers next to a portrait of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya on the sixth anniversary of her death, at her block of flats in central Moscow October 7, 2012. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday for life sentences for two men convicted of the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose killing deepened Western concerns about the rule of law under President Vladimir Putin.
Life became the maximum sentence for murder in the 1990s when the country imposed a moratorium on the death penalty.
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