’Trio guilty in murder of reporter’

Hurriyet Daily News with wires

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He said that he was "certain of the complicity ... of the culprits and accomplices who stood trial" for her slaying, according a report by the Associated Press.

A Moscow jury acquitted two Chechen brothers and one Moscow police officer last Thursday for insufficient evidence. Prosecutors have five days left to appeal the verdict. Politkovskaya was gunned down in her apartment in an October 2006 slaying that investigators linked to her work as a muckraking reporter.

Also yesterday, President Dmitry Medvedev said in televised comments that prosecutors must "learn to work in the conditions of a jury trial."

"Prosecutors and law-enforcement officers who conduct preliminary investigations should learn to work with the existence of the institution of the jury," Medvedev said at a meeting with senior prosecutors. "It is time to learn to do this, and not discuss how good it was back when this institution did not exist," he said in televised remarks. Juries were introduced in Russia in the post-Soviet era and tend to acquit suspects at a much higher rate than judges.