MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow's...

Stanislav Markelov was shot dead on Monday afternoon in broad daylight in downtown Moscow. Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova, 25, was wounded in the shooting and died in hospital later on Monday.

"I will sign an order setting up an investigative team, and we will bring in the best officers from the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department," said Vladimir Pronin.

He said an identikit image issued of the suspect was based on CCTV camera footage as no eyewitnesses have come forward.

"It is a young male, some 180 cm (5.9 feet) tall, of slim build," he said, adding that the killer's image was blurred, which made it almost impossible to obtain more information on the suspect's feature.

Markelov had protested the early release of former Russian army colonel Yury Budanov.

Budanov, who commanded a tank regiment during the second military campaign in Chechnya, was convicted in the summer of 2003 of strangling 18-year-old Elsa Kungayeva

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