Editor-in-chief of "Novaya Gazeta" would not find Politkovskaya's murder cleared

The murder case of the "Novaya Gazeta" observer Anna Politkovskaya cannot be regarded as cleared. This was stated by Dmitri Muratov, editor-in-chief of the paper, who made his comments on the statement of inspector Vladimir Markin that by June 20 they plan to announce the end of the preliminary investigation of this crime.

"I didn't tell it before, but now I'm forced to say that I'm sick and tired of all the statements that the case is cleared and ready for the court. You can't state it cleared, once the customer is unknown and the killer not captured," Mr Muratov said today.

"It's not and cannot be regarded as cleared. I don't know such cases, where the murderer is not caught, the customer is unknown, the persons who ruin the case with data leakages are not named and criminally prosecuted, but the case is declared cleared. Such things never happen," the editor-in-chief of "Novaya Gazeta" has added.

Mr Muratov has noted that he sees no harm in the fact that four out of nine suspects in the case have been ser free from custody, the "Interfax" reports. The problem, in Muratov's opinion, is in the statements that Politkovskaya's murder is cleared.