Anna Politkovskaya

Suspect Charged With Murder Of Legendary Russian Journalist

AP | Posted 08.02.2011

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

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

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 07.31.2011

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

Moscow's Shadow War - Playing Now in Poland

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 05.25.2011

Thor Halvorssen

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.

The Murder of Russian Rule of Law

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Amsterdam

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?

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

Committee to Protect Journalists | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Bombing Russia and Media Censorship

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.25.2011

Larisa Alexandrovna

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.

New Politkovskaya Probe Rejected By Russian Court

AP | KARINA IOFFEE | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Anna Politkovskaya Trial Reopens In Russia

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011

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

After Obama Visit, Russia Resets to Default

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Amsterdam

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?

Natalia Estemirova: Russian Rights Activist Kidnapped, Found Dead

AP | MIKE ECKEL and MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Natalia Estemirova Killing The Latest In Attacks On Russian Activists

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Politkovskaya Murder Acquittal Overturned In Russia

AP | LYNN BERRY | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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...

Anna Politkovskaya Trial: Russia Reopens Case

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

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

Anna Politkovskaya Trial: Accused Found Not Guilty

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

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...

Is There a Split in Kremlin?

Neil Hicks | Posted 05.25.2011

Neil Hicks

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.

Stanislav Markelov: Russian Lawyer In Prominent Chechnya Cases Shot Dead

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 05.25.2011

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 ...

Murder of Anna Politkovskaya: The Trial Begins

Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Oleg Kozlovsky

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.

Death Threats Against Italian Author

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Jayne Lyn Stahl

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

Prosecutors Know Who Killed Russian Journalist

New York Times | CJ Chivers | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Chechen Detained In Murder Of Famed Russian Journalist

AP | Mike Eckel | Posted 05.25.2011

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