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of the chamber said on Monday."It is very important how the investigation will be conducted in the first hours," lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said.
Visa Kungayev, Elsa's father, said in a telephone interview with RIA Novosti he had no doubts that the shooting of Markelov was directly connected with the Budanov case.
"We are all shocked. We did not expect this. I am sure that he was killed for his professional activities, particularly for the Budanov case," he said.
Kungayev, who lives with his family in Norway, said Markelov had told him that he had been threatened on several occasions recently.
"Last Thursday or Friday I received an SMS from him, in which he said that he had been threatened," Kungayev said.
According to preliminary information, Baburova, who was walking with Markelov and was seriously wounded in the shooting, worked as a journalist with the Novaya Gazeta daily, a deputy head of the Moscow department of the Prosecutor
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