Outrage and intrigue around the case have persisted in the years since, and then spiked again on Tuesday after President Vladimir V. Putin let it be known that he had pardoned a man convicted of organizing the assassination.
While a court convicted several men of carrying out the killing, the authorities left unanswered the question of who organized it. Mr. Putin, speaking soon after Ms. Politkovskaya's death, denied any role. The international criticism over the killing, he argued, had created a bigger problem for Russia than her work as an investigative journalist had.
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