Anna Politkovskaya murder suspects arrested in Russia

Moscow, Russia - Russia has arrested 10 suspects in the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Russian TV showed prosecutor general Yuri Chaika telling President Putin of the arrests, informing him that those held would soon be charged.

Chaika said "serious progress" had been made in the investigation into the killing, which was widely condemned.

The journalist, a harsh critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead at her Moscow apartment block in 2006.

At the moment there is no information about the identity of the suspects.

Anna Politkovskaya was killed as she left for work. Closed circuit television footage showed a single gunman carried out the murder.

At the time it was rumored the killer could have been a member of a Chechen criminal gang or even have a connection to the Russian security services.

The Russian government has always strenuously denied any connection to the murder.

Anna Politkovskaya made her name reporting from Chechnya for Russia's liberal newspaper, Novaya Gazeta.

She was also the author of two books in English, A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya (2001), and Putin's Russia (2004).