MOSCOW - The journalism watchdog group Reporters Without Borders on Friday called for the leaders of Russia and the United States to request a U.N. investigation into the killing of journalist Paul Klebnikov.
The American, who was editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, was gunned down on a Moscow street on July 9, 2004.
Two men were brought to trial on charges of carrying out the killing on behalf of a Chechen separatist who was the subject of a critical book written by Klebnikov, but were acquitted. The trial was dogged by criticism that prosecutors failed to pursue other lines of investigation in the case.
"At the end of a farce of a trial ... it is clear …
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