Russia: Two detained over journalist's murder - Report

Russian authorities have detained two suspects over the killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, it was claimed today, although her newspaper dismissed the report as “absolutely wrong".

Ms Politkovskaya, whose reports exposed human rights abuses in war-shattered Chechnya, was shot and killed in her Moscow flat last October – a killing that sparked an international outcry and highlighted the dangers in Russia for journalists who criticise the authorities or expose injustice.