20 Years Since The Death Of Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya
Six men were convicted, but the order behind the killing remains unknown as Russian journalists mark her legacy under tighter state pressure.
- On Tuesday, journalist Sergei Sokolov and Nobel Prize-winner Dmitry Muratov gathered at the Novaya Gazeta office in Moscow to honor slain reporter Anna Politkovskaya ahead of the 20th anniversary of her 2006 assassination.
- Politkovskaya had "predicted" Russia's trajectory under Vladimir Putin, warning in the early 2000s that journalists must show "total servility to Putin" or face prison; her editor Sokolov stated she had "predicted" everything happening today.
- She was gunned down on October 7, 2006, Putin's 54th birthday, after criticizing Ramzan Kadyrov, whom she called an "enemy of the Chechen people"; the mastermind behind her murder remains unidentified.
- Two decades later, Putin remains in power while the war against Ukraine is in its fifth year, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives; repression within Russia has reached levels not seen since the Soviet era.
- Exiled reporter Yegor Feoktistov, 28, noted that Politkovskaya's fate reminds journalists of risks they face yet provides courage to continue; Sokolov believes if she were alive today, "she would definitely not be able to stay silent.
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Exactly twenty years ago, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's bravest investigative journalists and the most vocal critic of Vladimir Putin, was shot four times in the elevator of her building in Moscow.
Anna Politkovskaya knew she was risking her life. But truth and justice were more important. That's why she was killed – on Putin's birthday.
This tireless opponent, journalist and investigator spent her life analyzing and denouncing the crimes of the Poutinian regime. Two decades after her murder, her work did not take a wrinkle.
Anna Politkovskaya wrote about, among other things, human rights violations in Russia and criticized Vladimir Putin.
The independent Russian journalist was killed 20 years ago: since then Putin's regime has wiped her out of public memory
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