Duo get life for Anna Politkovskaya murder

They were among five men convicted of the crime last month.Ms Politkovskaya, an investigative reporter and vocal critic of Russia's war in Chechnya, was shot in a lift in her block of flats.Three of the men had earlier been acquitted but Russia's supreme court ordered a retrial. Investigators have not determined who ordered the killing.Rustam Makhmudov was found guilty of pulling the trigger and is one of the men who received a life sentence.His uncle Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, one of those found guilty of organising the murder, was also jailed for life.The three other convicted of the killing - two of whom are Makhmudov's brothers - were given between 12 and 20 years in prison.Ms Politkovskaya's reporting for Novaya Gazeta newspaper won international renown for her dogged investigation of Russian abuses in Chechnya.But her pieces, which were highly critical of President Vladimir Putin, then serving his second term, and the Chechen leadership, angered many in authority.Last year a former police officer, Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for supplying the murder weapon.(BBC)Bakudaily.az