Anna Politkovskaya

TweetAnna 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, corrupt...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 the...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 be as bad...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 byRussians fighting against corruption and rights abuses.Investigators said they believe...Read Full Story

Russia on Wednesday asked for more time to probe the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, amid few signs of tangible progress in the search for her killer four years on.The chief investigator's office said in a statement one day before the anniversary of the journalist's slaying that it planned to extend the long-running investigation until February.Politkovskaya, who was sharply critical of Russia's strongman Vladimir Putin and his policies in Chechnya, was gunned down in...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, who is now...Read Full Story

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities have detained a long elusive suspect in the killing of investigative journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya five years ago, investigators said on Tuesday.Rustam Makhmudov, the man accused of fatally shooting Politkovskaya in Moscow in 2006, was detained in his native province of Chechnya in southern Russia, the federal Investigative Committee said.The killing of Politkovskaya, who investigated rights abuses in Chechnya and high-level corruption...Read Full Story

Three years after the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, hundreds attended a demonstration in her memory in central Moscow Wednesday, with the assassin and mastermind of the murder still at large.Around 500 people, including liberal politicians, popular cultural figures and Politkovskaya's daughter Vera took part in the officially approved demonstration at 4:03 pm (1203 GMT), the exact time when Politkovskaya was shot outside her apartment building on October 7, 2006.In a heavy show of...Read Full Story