Politkovskaya 'Predicted' Russia's Turn Under Putin, Editor Says on 20th Anniversary of Her Death
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Anna Politkovskaya was the last critical voice in Russia to be heard in public: 20 years ago, the journalist was killed – on Putin's birthday. Journalism no longer exists in his empire.
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya predicted the direction Russia would take under Vladimir Putin, her former editor told AFP on the 20th anniversary of her death. She was shot dead outside her Moscow home in 2006.
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaia, assassinated 20 years ago, predicted Vladimir Putin's fall into authoritarianism and remains a "necessary model of courage in the context of the war in Ukraine and the repression in Russia, according to Russian journalists interviewed by AFP.
Politkovskaya 'predicted' Russia's turn under Putin, editor says on 20th anniversary of her death
Assassinated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya "predicted" Moscow's trajectory under President Vladimir Putin 20 years ago, her former editor said ahead of the anniversary of her death on Wednesday. Politkovskaya had reported on the war in Chechnya and Putin's rise before she was gunned down in her Moscow apartment block on October 7, 2006.
Twenty years ago, the journalist was murdered, at the instigation of the Russian secret services. Documentary writer Eric Bergkraut, who has known him well, recalls, in a forum in the "World", his fight for the truth and against the propaganda of the Kremlin, a fight more necessary than ever while Vladimir Putin continues to kill.
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow 20 years ago. She had predicted the overthrow of Vladimir Putin and remains a symbol of the courage that is urgently needed amid the war in Ukraine and totalitarianism in Russia. On October 7, 2006, Putin’s birthday, the Novaya Gazeta journalist was riddled with bullets […]
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