&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/36141?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=New+Politkovskaya+charges+expected%3AArticle%3A1644597&amp;ch=Media&amp;c3=GU.co.uk&amp;c4=Media%2CAnna+Politkovskaya%2CRussia+%28News%29%2CWorld+news%2CJournalist+safety%2CPress+freedom+%28Media%29%2CChechnya%2CVladimir+Putin%2CAlexander+Lebedev+%28Media%29%2CThe+Independent%2CLondon+Evening+Standard&amp;c5=Press+Media%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CMedia+Weekly&amp;c6=Roy+Greenslade&amp;c7=11-Oct-07&amp;c8=1644597&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost%2CNews&amp;c11=Media&amp;c13=&amp;c25=Greenslade+blog&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FMedia%2Fblog%2FGreenslade&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Russian investigators have marked the fifth anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya&#039;s murder by announcing that they will file new charges against previously arrested suspects. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, a native of Chechnya, is accused of organising the shooting of the investigative journalist who was critical of Vladimir Putin&#039;s administration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;New charges against the suspected hitman, Rustam Makhmudov, and several others are expected too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Makhmudov&#039;s two brothers and former Moscow police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov stood trial on charges of helping to stage the killing, but a court found them not guilty in 2009. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Russian supreme court overruled the acquittal and has sent the case back to prosecutors. Gaitukayev is an uncle of the Makhmudovs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Politkovskaya was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building on 7 October 2006. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Investigators also said that Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who was a senior police officer at the time of the killing, helped to track Politkovskaya&#039;s movements before she was shot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The news has been welcomed by Politkovskaya&#039;s newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, which is co-owned by Alexander Lebedev, owner of The Independent and London Evening Standard in Britain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the paper also lamented the slow progress on finding the person who ordered the killing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Politkovskaya was killed on Putin&#039;s birthday, fuelling speculation about the involvement of senior officials in the Kremlin being responsible.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Source:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/5-years-after-politkovskayas-murder-investigators-silent-about-who-might-have-ordered-it/2011/10/07/gIQAFQLyRL_story.html&quot;&gt;AP/Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/anna-politkovskaya&quot;&gt;Anna Politkovskaya&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/russia&quot;&gt;Russia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/journalist-safety&quot;&gt;Journalist safety&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/press-freedom&quot;&gt;Press freedom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/chechnya&quot;&gt;Chechnya&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/vladimir-putin&quot;&gt;Vladimir Putin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/alexander-lebedev&quot;&gt;Alexander Lebedev&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/theindependent&quot;&gt;The Independent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/london-evening-standard&quot;&gt;London Evening Standard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/roygreenslade&quot;&gt;Roy Greenslade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;