Igor Domnikov

Ten years after the attack, on March 11, 2015, Dorovsky was charged with the murder of Domnikov. Dorovsky was charged with "solicitation of deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm to a victim due to his/her professional activity." This brought attention to the already popular paper in Russia but also brought unwanted attention and more attacks. The case, however, was not successfully prosecuted as the statute of limitations had run out.

After his death, at the Laureate Freedom of Speech awards in 2010, he and four other journalists from the Novaya Gazeta – Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, Anna Politkovskaya, and Yuri Shchekochikhin – were credited with paying the greatest price in order to fight for the right to free speech.

A push for justice led to arrests and convictions in August 2007. Five members of a criminal gang were convicted of murdering Domnikov. They were sentenced to prison terms varying from 18 years to life for the Domnikov slaying and numerous other crimes.

Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said, "Justice has been served in a journalist murder for the first time since President Vladimir Putin took office in 2000."

Domnikov was a journalist for Novaya Gazeta who edited a special project involving business corruption. Between May 1999 and February 2000, Domnikov published five articles in Novaya Gazeta criticizing the economic policies of former Lipetsk Region vice governor Sergey Dorovsky.

Igor Domnikov (May 29, 1959 – July 16, 2000) was a Russian journalist and editor for special topics involving business corruption for Novaya Gazeta in Moscow, Russia, who was murdered in 2000. Although some individuals were convicted of the attack in 2007, the suspected mastermind, Sergey Dorovsky, an ex-government official from Lipetsk Region, was never convicted as the statute of limitations on the case had expired.