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BBC News
April 16, 2018
A Russian investigative journalist who wrote about the deaths of mercenaries in Syria has died in hospital after falling from his fifth-floor flat. Maxim Borodin was found badly injured by neighbours in Yekaterinburg and taken to hospital, where he later died. Local officials said no suicide note was found butÃâà...
First Things
April 11, 2018
Or the murder of his critics, like journalist Anna Politkovskaya? Or the poisoning with radioactive polonium of Alexander Litvinenko, who tried to shed light on Putin's secret police thugs? Or the recent use of a weapons-grade nerve agent in England against two Russians of whom Putin disapproved? Are theÃâà...
The Nation.
April 10, 2018
Anna Politkovskaya, who revealed the truth about events in Chechnya to the country and the world, was shot to death in 2006. In 2009, Natalya Estemirova, Stanislav Markelov, and Anastasia Baburova were killed. Even for Russia, six killed at the same newspaper is a horrible record. Even more horriblyÃâà...
Wicked Local Dedham
April 4, 2018
Since 1989, the James Joyce Ramble has petitioned on behalf of writers such as Vaclav Havel, Xu Wenli, Aung San Suu Ky, Daniel Pearl, Anna Politkovskaya, and Rael Badwawi, who is still in a Saudi Arabian prison, sentenced to 10 years for writing words of dissent. Dedham nonprofits can sociallyÃâà...
The Calvert Journal
April 4, 2018
“But he has merit both in the eyes of the country and across the world of contemporary theatre.” Ugarov funeral is set to be held on 5 April. He will then be interrned in Troekurovskiy Cemetery, alongside murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Russian director Elem Klimov, and director and screenwriterÃâà...
Vanity Fair
March 31, 2018
There have been moments of lucidity—shocks to our collective but misplaced optimism—but those have been moments (Anna Politkovskaya's murder in 2006; the invasion of Ukraine in 2014). They have been eclipsed by our desire to believe that the only things that really separated the United States andÃâà...
International Policy Digest
March 29, 2018
There have been no arrests. Similarly, there have been few arrests in the many murder cases in Russia involving journalists. Occasionally, as in the case of Anna Politkovskaya, there are arrests and even convictions, but the hitmen are usually professionals and they know better than to identify their clients.
ReporterNews.com
March 21, 2018
Budanov in turn was murdered gangland-style in Moscow in June 2011. Baburova worked for Novaya Gazeta, an opposition newspaper. Journalist Anna Politkovskaya of that paper was very prominent in investigation of human-rights abuses in Chechnya. She was murdered in 2006. In a dramatic interviewÃâà...
Real Change News
March 21, 2018
About two weeks earlier, he had publicly accused Putin of having sanctioned the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on Putin's 54th birthday, Oct. 7. She was murdered by gunshot in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building. What? You say no poison? Well, she had survived an attemptÃâà...
The Scotsman
March 20, 2018
This is a man who doesn't bemoan “fake news” on Twitter, but whose critics – like rival politician Boris Nemtsov and journalist Anna Politkovskaya – have a nasty habit of getting themselves murdered. A man who, it would appear, orders the assassination of his fellow Russians living in the UK, using deadlyÃâà...
TeenVogue.com
March 19, 2018
Anna Politkovskaya, a Novaya Gazeta reporter, was among them, as The Guardian reported. And journalists aren't alone. The slow government response to the alleged assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov is documented in all it shadiness in this New Yorker piece on the first anniversary of hisÃâà...
Macleans.ca
March 16, 2018
Only a month before Alexander Litvinenko's 2006 death by Polonium-210 in London, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building. The assassination was widely believed to have been carried out on Putin's direct orders. As in the case of Boris Nemtsov'sÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 9, 2018
Before she was murdered in the elevator of her apartment in 2006, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya was targeted for assassination using poison. Politkovskaya, who won countless enemies for her coverage of the Russian invasion of Chechnya, was attempting to travel to North Ossetia in 2004 to helpÃâà...
IFEX
March 4, 2018
Justice for Anna Politkovskaya was a long time coming; and when it arrived, it was not entirely satisfactory. After trials, acquittals and retrials, six men were eventually convicted of the journalist's murder: one was sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony in 2012; the remaining five were handed life sentencesÃâà...
The Independent
March 2, 2018
This is a change of policy for Five Stars. A decade ago Beppe Grillo, the party leader who was then a comedian turned blogger, urged people to buy copies of Putin's Russia, a searing indictment of corruption by Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist who was subsequently murdered, with accusationsÃâà...
Inquirer.net
March 1, 2018
investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya—in Turkey and during the Balkan wars. In its 2017 report, Reporters Without Border lists 65 deaths worldwide, including 50 journalists, seven bloggers and eight media staff. These deaths represent a decline of 18 percent compared with 2016 due to “a growingÃâà...
The Peninsula Qatar
February 27, 2018
Nearly two-thirds of these have taken place in Russia -- including the high-profile assassination in 2006 of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya -- and in Turkey and during the Balkan wars. Reporters Without Borders notes in 2017 the killing of several European journalists covering conflicts abroad,Ãâà...
Atlantic Council (blog)
February 27, 2018
Tragically, Nemtsov joins a long list of political dissidents who were killed in Russia over the past two decades, including Anna Politkovskaya, Stanislav Markelov, Natalia Estemirova, and many others. Nonetheless, Nemtsov's murder stands out from the rest because he once was a member of Russia'sÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 27, 2018
People hold portraits of Anna Politkovskaya during a 2007 rally to mark the first anniversary of the Russian journalist's slaying. ... Human rights groups claim Kadyrov ordered the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who frequently reported on the Kremlin's relationship with Kadyrov.
Maine Public
February 23, 2018
She has contributed to books on Vladimir Putin's Russia and on Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. She has a special interest in security issues and human rights. In 2016-2017 she is a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. She is on the advisory committee of the Primo Levi Center inÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 22, 2018
As with previous killings -- including the killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 -- government critics have voiced suspicion that the culprits will never face justice because an honest investigation could lead to figures who are close to Moscow-backed Chechen leader Ramzan KadyrovÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 6, 2017
The U.S. State Department has called on Russia to find and prosecute those who ordered the 2006 murder of prominent Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. In a statement released October 6 -- one day before the 11th anniversary of Politkovskaya's killing -- State Department spokeswomanÃâà...
ITV News
December 31, 1999
Friends of a journalist who investigated Russian mercenaries fighting in Syria have expressed their suspicion over his mysterious death. Maksim Borodin gained a reputation for exposes and it has been suggested his latest reporting may have led to his death. Borodin died on April 14 from injuriesÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Using an exotic chemical agent produced by a single lab in the Soviet Union isn't one of them. There are inconspicuous moments at which to do it. The eve of Putin's re-coronation isn't one of them. It recalls the murder of the journalist and Kremlin scourge Anna Politkovskaya on Oct. 7, 2006 — Putin's 54thÃâà...
British GQ
December 31, 1999
What happened to Anna Politkovskaya, the brilliant journalist, who was poisoned and shot? You don't like noise, do you? Read your Idiot's Guide To Being A Tyrant and make your smoke with your mirrors. But stay out of Wiltshire. In the war, we planned to retreat behind the Kennet & Avon Canal if theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Boris Kazadayev, left, and Ivan Sharavin stand in front of a makeshift memorial at the spot where Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov was killed three years ago. Diehard volunteers have guarded the site from police cleanups around the clock for more than 1,000 days. (Sabra Ayres / For The Times).
