An elderly man puts flowers near a picture of Russia's State Duma lower house of parliament deputy Galina Starovoitova November 21, who was shot dead in the stairwell of her apartment building late Friday. Starovoitova had been co-chairman of the Democratic Russia political party and was one of the most outspoken pro-democracy campaigners during reforms under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the early years of post-Soviet Russia. The shocking murder of a leading liberal voice in the parliament overshadowed efforts to resolve the country's economic crisis on Saturday.

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