Anna Politkovskaya

Suspect Charged With Murder Of Legendary Russian Journalist

AP | Posted 08.02.2011

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MOSCOW — A suspect has been charged with murder in the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Russian investigators said Thursday. The ...

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Russian Officials: Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's Suspected Killer Has Been Arrested

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 07.31.2011

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MOSCOW — Russian security forces on Tuesday arrested the suspected triggerman in the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunn...

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Moscow's Shadow War - Playing Now in Poland

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 200,000 Chechens have died on Moscow's orders. The photographic evidence of mutilation, torture, electric shocks and eye-gouging are impossible to ignore, but the West remains indifferent.

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The Murder of Russian Rule of Law

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

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Late on Monday the Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky suffered a rupture of the abdominal membrane causing death. How many more dead Russians will it take before the world takes notice?

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Anatomy of Injustice: The Unsolved Killings of 17 Journalists in Russia

Committee to Protect Journalists | Posted 05.25.2011

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Only Iraq and Algeria outrank Russia on the list of most life-threatening countries for the press. Seventeen journalists have been murdered in Russia ...

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Bombing Russia and Media Censorship

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Though em>GQ spiked their article on allegations that the Russian FSB were behind the 1999 false-flag bombings in Russia, Gawker helped translate it into Russian, a serious first for news.

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New Politkovskaya Probe Rejected By Russian Court

AP | KARINA IOFFEE | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — A Moscow court rejected a plea by the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya for a new investigation into her death, lea...

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Anna Politkovskaya Trial Reopens In Russia

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Russian military court in Moscow has opened a new trial into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist and staunch critic of ...

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After Obama Visit, Russia Resets to Default

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

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What can be said about a kleptocratic country with no rule of law, where women are shot dead, young promising lawyers slain and the rest cowed into submission by fear?

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Natalia Estemirova: Russian Rights Activist Kidnapped, Found Dead

AP | MIKE ECKEL and MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — A well-known Russian rights activist was found slain execution-style on Wednesday, hours after being kidnapped in Chechnya – the ...

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Natalia Estemirova Killing The Latest In Attacks On Russian Activists

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Award-winning Russian rights activist Natalya Estemirova has been found dead hours after being kidnapped in Chechnya, reports Human Rights Watch. Es...

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Politkovskaya Murder Acquittal Overturned In Russia

AP | LYNN BERRY | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the acquittal of three men charged with the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist wh...

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Medvedev Interview: Russian President Breaks From Putin In Landmark Interview With Opposition Newspaper

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Breaking with the tone established by his predecessor Vladimir Putin, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev stated outright in an interview with a well-kn...

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Anna Politkovskaya Trial: Russia Reopens Case

Nytimes.com | ELLEN BARRY and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW -- A day after a Moscow jury acquitted all three suspects in the murder of the prominent investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the presi...

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Anna Politkovskaya Trial: Accused Found Not Guilty

Guardian.co.uk | Luke Harding in Moscow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Four men accused of helping to organise the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya were today acquitted by a court in Moscow, amid claims...

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Is There a Split in Kremlin?

Neil Hicks | Posted 05.25.2011

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Medvedev's conciliatory gestures may be a good cop/bad cop tactic orchestrated by Putin. Churchill's famous analogy to "bulldogs fighting under a rug" to describe Russian politics remains apt.

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Stanislav Markelov: Russian Lawyer In Prominent Chechnya Cases Shot Dead

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — A Russian human rights lawyer renowned for his work on abuses in Chechnya was shot to death Monday by a masked gunman who followed him ...

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Murder of Anna Politkovskaya: The Trial Begins

Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anna Politkovskaya was a prominent Russian journalist. She investigated police and army brutality and supported victims of terrorism. She went where misery was too great for people to bear.

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Death Threats Against Italian Author

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is not the first time we've seen a prominent journalist be slated for assassination, or assassinated.

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Prosecutors Know Who Killed Russian Journalist

New York Times | CJ Chivers | Posted 05.25.2011

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The independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper and Russian prosecutors know the identity of the man who killed Anna Politkovskaya, the newspaper's correspond...

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Chechen Detained In Murder Of Famed Russian Journalist

AP | Mike Eckel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The former head of a district in Chechnya has been arrested on suspicion of organizing the execution-style murder of investigative journalist Anna Pol...

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