One year after the murder of Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, her killers have yet to be brought to justice due to an investigation frought impartiality. “This negligent attitude on behalf of the authorities enhances political terror in the country. Such reprisals are targeted at intimidation of all the dissenting with the present political course at the Northern Caucasus, violation of human rights, curbing of civil liberties and suppression of the freedom of speech,” said Dr Grigory A. Yavlinsky, founder of the YABLOKO party (LI full member), prize-winner of the Prize for Freedom in 2004.