Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya: "A Real Investigation Will only Be Possible if the Regime Changes," Her Son Says.
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The independent Russian journalist was killed 20 years ago: since then Putin's regime has wiped her out of public memory
For opponents of the Kremlin, his murder has set a macabre milestone in the dive into Russia's authoritarianism.
On October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya returned to her home in Moscow. She was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building at the age of 48. Twenty years later, her murder remains one of the most notorious crimes against a journalist in Russia, and the judicial response is incomplete: the people involved in the execution and organization were convicted, but not the person who ordered the murder. Politkovskaya worked for Novaya Gazeta and…
Madrid, Oct 7 (EFE).- The human rights activist, also recognized for her opposition to the Russian-Chechen war and to the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead in the elevator of his apartment building in Moscow. The entry Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered today 20 years ago was first published in HolaNews.
On 7 October 2006, the Russian president's birthday, this journalist of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta had been shot several times in the elevator of his building in Moscow. For many opponents of the Kremlin, his murder set a grim milestone in the dive into the authoritarianism of post-Soviet Russia, after Vladimir Putin's arrival in power more than 25 years ago. Until his death at 48 years, Anna Politkovskaya, who had survived poisoning in 2004, d…
It has been 20 years since the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, critical of the Kremlin, the background to which remains unclear. 32 countries of the Coalition for Media Freedom, including Slovenia, have called on Russian authorities to bring all those responsible, including the clients, to justice ahead of the anniversary of the murder.
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