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Russia: Complicit in Politkovskaya's murder pardoned by Putin after fighting in Ukraine. Sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the murder of the journalist in 2006, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, a former Russian policeman, has been pardoned. "Those convicted, including for serious crimes, atone for their crime with blood on the battlefield," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. The pardon granted by Vladimir Putin is in no way "proof of the murderer's atonement and remorse," they continued.