Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian investigative journalist known for her coverage of the war on Chechnya and abuse of civilians by government troops under President Putin. She was shot to death in the elevator of her apartment building on... [more]
Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian investigative journalist known for her coverage of the war on Chechnya and abuse of civilians by government troops under President Putin. She was shot to death in the elevator of her apartment building on October 7, 2006.
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated on Oct. 7, 2006. This coming Wednesday, a memorial rally is scheduled to take place outside Chistyye Prudy subway station in Moscow.
(Past GV coverage of Anna Politkovskaya's murder: 2006 - here and here; 2007 - here; 2008 - here.)
A note (RUS) announcing the memorial rally was initially posted on the site of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper Anna Politkovskaya wrote for:
It's been three years since...
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From groundreport.com
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Voice of AmericaSlain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya symbol of threatened pressChristian Science MonitorAnna Politkovskaya was murdered three years ago, but her killers have not been brought to justice. Russian journalists say that's a sign of how dangerous ...Russia: Reporter's Death RememberedNew York TimesRussian Journalist Politkovskaya Remembered 3 Years After KillingVoice of AmericaHundreds rally in Moscow in Politkovskaya's...
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From news.google.com
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The weather was sunny and clear, but the mood was grim as hundreds gathered in a downtown Moscow park Wednesday to remember crusading reporter Anna Politkovskaya , who was gunned down, virtually at her own doorstep, in a political assassination three ...
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From search.msn.com
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Two years before she was killed in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment, Anna Politkovskaya mused about life as the Kremlin's number one enemy and pronounced it a "miracle" that she was still alive.The journalist, lauded for her fearless reporting of Russian atrocities in Chechnya, made the comment during the interviews that make up the moving documentary film "Lettre a Anna" (Letter to Anna) released this week in France.
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From france24.com
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Moscow, Oct 7 (DPA) Artists, journalists and human rights activists were among 800 people to gather in Moscow to commemorate the third anniversary of the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya Wednesday, Russian media reported.
Russian Prime Minister and former president Vladimir Putin was the object of ire among the demonstrators, calling for a “Russia without [...]
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