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Three men have been charged over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, investigators have said.
Politkovskaya, a prominent Kremlin critic, was shot dead outside her home in the capital on 7 October 2006.
BBC reports, that Russia's Investigative Committee said a fourth man, an officer with the country's security service, had also been charged with abuse of office.
Last month officials also named the man suspected of firing the gun as Rustam Makhmudov. He remains at large.
The three men charged over the murder are Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, and Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov.
The committee did not say what the motive was for Politkovskaya's killing, or specify the suspects' roles in the murder.
The murder of Politkovskaya, who wrote for the small-circulation Novaya Gazeta, shocked the international community but did not register widely in Russia.
Human rights groups accused the Russian authorities of failing to protect journalists.
The former colleagues of Anna Politkovskaya, who wrote frequently exposing human rights abuses committed in Chechnya, said the case would continue.
"I have said many times that this is only the first part of the case," said Sergei Sokolov, the investigative newspaper's deputy editor.
"It's not over yet, there will be a second and a third part."
Charges against a fifth man, a Chechen local government official who allegedly provided the address of Anna Politkovskaya, have been dropped due to a lack of evidence.
// 18.06.2008 13:22
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/world/2008/4176.shtml
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