Stanislav Markelov: Times change but the stagnation remains
(World News Russia)

Ten years ago this month, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov was murdered in Moscow. We publish his reflections on Russian society´s nostalgia for the Soviet period here for the first time in English. Anatoly Savin / Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved. Ten years ago this January, activist lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were murdered in downtown Moscow. As it became clear later, this was a pinnacle moment in Russian ultra-nationalists´ campaign of terror. As a human rights lawyer, Markelov defended a series of high-profile cases throughout the 2000s, often connected to police and security force violence. But what has been left out of the picture is Markelov´s...