11 Facts About Anastasia Baburova

Anastasia Baburova was a journalist for Novaya Gazeta and a student of journalism at Moscow State University.

Anastasia Baburova was shot and killed together with human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov.

Anastasia Baburova went to Moscow in 2001 and became a student in international law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

In 2004, Anastasia Baburova became a journalist student at the Moscow State University.

Anastasia Baburova participated in the activities of ecological camps, in social fora, including the Fifth European Social Forum in Malmo 2008, organised the 'Anti-capitalism 2008' festival, demonstrated widely, and was involved in anti-fascist activities more generally.

In July 2008, Anastasia Baburova participated in a demonstration against the felling of the Khimki Forest.

The day before her murder, Anastasia Baburova appeared at the anarcho-communist unity event 'Autonomous Action'.

At first it was reported that Anastasia Baburova had been wounded in an attempt to detain Markelov's killer, but later Russian law enforcement authorities declared that Anastasia Baburova was shot in the back of the head.

Anastasia Baburova died a few hours after the attack at a Moscow hospital.

Anastasia Baburova became the fourth Novaya Gazeta journalist to be killed since 2000.

On 26 January 2009, Anastasia Baburova was buried in the central city cemetery of her home town of Sevastopol.