Anna Politkovskaya

Tweet Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist who was murdered in 2006 simply for doing her job.  It is unknown to this day who ordered her killing. Italians can empathise with Anna Politkovskaya. As Anna herself once wrote, “I see everything, this is the problem”.  Seeing is one thing, being brave enough to write about it is another entirely. Journalists in Italy who had seen everything met with the same fate as the late Ms Politkovskaya, often as a result of delving into the shady...Read Full Story

MOSCOW ( Reuters ) - Five years after investigative journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment building, her unsolved murder is becoming a test case for Vladimir Putin on his return to Russia's presidency. The arrest of a murder suspect and a former police officer accused of helping organize the killing has increased the chance of a successful prosecution in a case that came to symbolize the corruption of the political and judicial system under Putin. But...Read Full Story

MOSCOW ( Reuters ) - Russian investigators said on Friday they would press charges against a man they accuse of arranging the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya , five years to the day after the Kremlin critic's death. The announcement indicated authorities are eager to display progress toward solving a murder that blackened then- President Vladimir Putin 's reputation and underscored the dangers faced by Russians fighting against corruption and rights abuses. Investigators said they...Read Full Story

Image by openDemocracy on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Yesterday’s New York Times editorial was devoted to the case of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who became known for her fearless investigative reporting of social issues in Russia and human rights abuses in Chechnya, was killed in her apartment building in 2006. Five years on, no one has been convicted of her murder. From the New York Times editorial: At the time of her murder, Vladimir Putin...Read Full Story

MOSCOW ( Reuters ) - Two deaths framed my four years in Moscow. The first was the murder of crusading political journalist Anna Politkovskaya , shot dead in her apartment building on then- President Vladimir Putin 's 54th birthday, a month after my arrival in Russia . I had read Politkovskaya's essays "Putin's Russia" before starting my assignment, struck by the bleakness of the picture they painted but encouraged by her boldness. Surely a government that tolerates such journalists could not...Read Full Story