There is already a list of unsolved political murders and attacks in Russia, the investigations of which were under ‘personal control’ of senior Russian politicians. The high-profile murders in Russia over the past years paint a clear picture. Below is a list of the most high-profile cases in Russia. DMITRY KHOLODOV, JOURNALIST Dmitry Kholodov was killed in October 1994 by a briefcase bomb VLADISLAV LISTYEV, TV PRESENTER A popular TV presenter, Vladislav Listyev was killed in Moscow in March 1995, only 34 days after becoming director of Russia's Public Service Television. The killer waited for Listyev at the entrance to his block of flats and fired two shots at point-blank range. No one has ever been arrested. MIKHAIL MANEVICH, GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL Mikhail Manevich was shot dead as he travelled to work. Mikhail Manevich was a 37-year-old senior official in St Petersburg, and friend of Anatoly Chubais, who organised Russia's disastrous "loans-for-shares" privatisations in the 1990s. Manevich was shot in the morning of 18 August, 1997, on his way to work. LEV ROKHLIN, RETIRED ARMY OFFICER Rokhlin was killed with a gun he was awarded for his military career. Lev Rokhlin was a former lieutenant-general who fought in Afghanistan and the first Chechen war from 1994-1996 - famously condemning its brutality. He was assassinated on the night of 3 July, 1998, at his dacha near Moscow. He was shot in the head with a gun he had received as recognition for his military achievements. In November 2000, a court convicted Rokhlin's wife, Tamara, of her husband's murder and sentenced her to eight years in prison. Her supporters insist the security services were behind the murder. GALINA STAROVOITOVA, LIBERAL POLITICIAN Galina Starovoitova was an MP and one of the leaders of Russia's democratic movement as well as a human rights activist and international relations specialist. She was shot dead near her St Petersburg home on 20 November, 1998. In 2005, a court sentenced the "technical organiser" of the killing, Yury Kolchin, and the gunman, Vitaly Akinshin, to long prison terms. But who ordered the murder - and why - remains unknown. In September 2009, the case was re-opened because of "new developments". AKHMAD KADYROV, CHECHEN LEADER Kadyrov died in a 2004 bomb attack at a Grozny stadium. Akhmad Kadyrov died on 9 May, 2004, when a bomb exploded at a stadium in the Chechen capital, Grozny. He was 52. He was the leader of the pro-Moscow Chechen administration and former mufti of the self-proclaimed Republic of Ichkeria. In the first days of the second Chechen war, he moved to the federal forces' side. Officially, the case has not been resolved, but his son Ramzan Kadyrov, current president of Chechnya, says he has killed everyone involved in his father's death. ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA, JOURNALIST A columnist for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and well-known human rights activist, Anna Politkovskaya was shot on 7 October, 2006, at the entrance to her block of flats on Moscow's Lesnaya Street. In August 2007, a Moscow court ordered the arrest of 10 suspects in connection with her death. But the majority of them were later freed. THE YAMADAEV BROTHERS, CHECHEN LEADERS A former State Duma deputy from Chechnya, Ruslan Yamadaev was shot dead in central Moscow in September 2008. His brother Sulim, a former Russian military commander of the "Vostok" battalion formed of contracted Chechen soldiers, was killed on 28 March, 2009 in Dubai. He was shot dead in a parking lot near his home. The brothers were members of an influential clan that virtually controlled Chechnya's second-biggest city, Gudermes. When the second Chechen war broke out in 1999, the brothers switched sides and joined Russia's federal forces. Their relations with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov had become tense in the years before their deaths. MERKELOV/BABUROVA, LAWYER/JOURNALIST Moscow lawyer Stanislav Markelov, 34, and 25-year-old Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasiya Baburova were shot and killed in broad daylight by a masked gunman on Prechistenka street, near the Kremlin. Markelov worked on several human rights cases, some in connection with Chechnya, and had received several phone threats from extreme Russian nationalist groups. The main areas of Baburova's journalistic interests were neo-Nazis and skinheads. Both murders remain unsolved. ADILGIREI MAGOMEDTAGIROV, POLITICIAN Dagestan's 53-year-old interior minister, Adilgirei Magomedtagirov had a reputation for being a fierce opponent of Islamic radicals. He was killed on 5 June, 2009, in the region's capital Makhachkala. He was shot by a sniper near a restaurant where he had been celebrating the wedding of a colleague's daughter. The killer used a specialist rifle and rounds commonly used by Russia's special forces. NATALIA ESTEMIROVA, CHECHEN RIGHTS ACTIVIST A Chechen human rights activist, journalist and employee of the human rights group Memorial, Natalya Estemirova was kidnapped on 15 July, 2009. Several hours later, her body was found riddled with bullets on a roadside in neighbouring Ingushetia. She was 50 years old. The crime remains unsolved.