High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stanislav Yuryevich Markelov (Russian: Stanisláv YÚr'evich Markélov; 20 May 1974 - 19 January 2009) was a human rights lawyer and journalist who wrote investigative articles on Chechnya. Markelov had been the attorney for the family of Elza Kungaeva, a young Chechen woman killed by Russian colonel Yuri Budanov, who was released from prison in mid-January, 15 months before his original sentence was to end. Markelov was murdered on 19 January 2009 in Moscow.