The attorney who is representing the defendants in the high-profile murder cases of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and disgraced colonel Yury Budanov will be defended in court by 93 lawyers from various regions of Russia, Izvestia daily reported Wednesday.

Russia’s top court formed a new jury on Tuesday for the trial into the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the RAPSI news agency reported.

Investigators said Monday that they have searched the apartment of a prominent lawyer currently representing the suspected killers of crusading reporter Anna Politkovskaya over accusations that he bribed witnesses in an unrelated trial.

A Moscow court on Thursday dismissed the jury in the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial, throwing already drawn-out proceedings into disarray.

Russian investigators said Thursday that they believe a lawyer currently acting on behalf of the suspected killers of crusading reporter Anna Politkovskaya bribed witnesses in an unrelated trial.

A Moscow court postponed hearings Tuesday in the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial for the sixth time in a row as a medical quarantine regime at a detention facility housing one of the defendants remains in force.

A memorial plaque was unveiled Monday in Moscow to commemorate crusading Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on the seventh anniversary of her murder.

The protracted trial into the high-profile murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was postponed Wednesday due to a medical quarantine at a detention facility housing one of the defendants.

Former Russian police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who pleaded guilty to charges connected with the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, told a Moscow court on Thursday that he had, upon the request of two of his co-defendants, run surveillance on murdered Forbes Russia editor-in-chief Paul Klebnikov.

A Moscow court on Monday removed a female juror from a trial into the murder of prominent journalist Anna Politkovskaya after concluding that the juror had told her colleagues that the defendants would be “imprisoned under any circumstance.”

The trial of the men charged with killing journalist Anna Politkovskaya was postponed Monday until the following day after a key witness had an epileptic seizure in the courtroom.

A Moscow court on Monday ruled that a defendant in the ongoing trial for the killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya would not be tried separately from other suspects even though he was shot in the thigh last week.

A defendant in the ongoing murder trial of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot and wounded in the center of Moscow on Wednesday evening, his lawyer said.

A Russian court has subpoenaed 12 witnesses in the murder trial of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya.

Four witnesses in the trial of the men accused of killing investigative Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya will be questioned behind closed doors, the prosecutor in the case said Tuesday.

The judge in the Anna Politkovskaya trial has rejected the request of the murdered investigative journalist's children that he recuse himself and discharge the jury, RAPSI legal news agency reported from the courtroom on Wednesday.

Five men accused of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya pleaded not guilty in Moscow on Wednesday at the start of a trial being boycotted by the slain investigative reporter’s children.

The Moscow City Court on Monday started preliminary hearings into the 2006 high-profile murder of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, the RAPSI legal news service reported.

A case against five men suspected of being involved in the 2006 high-profile murder of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya has been sent to court, the prosecutors said on Tuesday.