Anna Politkovskaya
(From left) French philosopher Andre Glucksmann, actress Catherine Deneuve, writer Frederic Begbeider and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy demonstrate in front of Notre-Dame's cathedral, 11 October 2006 in Paris, four days after the murder in Moscow of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Russian journalists and activists slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin 11 October 2006 after he said slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya had exerted little influence on Russian political life and implied that she had caused harm with her work.
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Anna Politkovskaya was one of the toughest critics of the current state of things here in Russia and the situation in the North Caucuses. She revealed a lot of crimes, in which both pro-Moscow Chechen armed forces and federal agents were involved.
They killed a prominent journalist - Anna Politkovskaya - and a human rights activist - Natalia Estemirova - to silence independent mass media who wrote about Chechnya. They killed Beketov to block all coverage of the Khimki eventsMore quotes »
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Evgeny Lebedev: Voices in the line of fire
It was the murder of Anna Politkovskaya that brought home to me the importance of journalistic freedom. Anna, who worked for my family’s campaigning newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was murdered at her block of flats in Moscow after running a series of exposés o from GulfToday.ae Read more »
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Jared Feldschreiber: Compromised Democracy in an Age of Terror
The deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon underscore that terrorism transcends boundaries. While sovereign countries have the right to employ counterterrorism methods, they must not trample the inherent basic rights of an open and fair press. The unsolv from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Probe Ends Into Politkovskaya Murder Suspects
A marble plaque dedicated to Anna Politkovskaya on the apartment building where the journalist and rights activist was killed in Moscow. Russian investigators have completed their work gathering evidence against the five suspects in the 2006 killing of i from Radio Free Europe Read more »
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Editorial Board: The president again turns a blind eye to Russia’s misdeeds
ACCORDING TO the State Department, the government of the Russian republic of Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov “has committed and continues to commit such serious human rights violations and abuses as extrajudicial killing, torture, disappearances and rape.” from The Washington Post Read more »
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Kremlin Hits Back After Forbes Editor Paul Klebnikov's Alleged Killer and Others Denied U.S. Visas
Paul Klebnikov was shot nine times, once for each year that his murder has gone unsolved. It was back in 2004, on a warm July night, when the American editor of Forbes-Russia left his Moscow office for the last time. He had no idea that he’d been shadowe from Forbes Read more »
