12/13/2006 1:59:00 AM -0500 No permit to honor slain Russian reporters
MOSCOW, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The Moscow city government has refused permission for a parade to honor Anna Politkovskaya and other Russian journalists killed in recent years.
A Moscow journalists' group planned the event for next Sunday, the radio station Ekho Moskvy said. The group said all it sought was permission to march peacefully through the center of the city.
Politkovskaya, who reported for Novaya Gazeta on human rights abuses in Chechnya, was shot and killed in her Moscow apartment building in October.
Others who would have been honored include Paul Klebnikov, the U.S.-born editor of the Russian edition of Forbes, who was shot in 2004 in Moscow; Valery Ivanov, editor of the newspaper Tolyatinskoye Oborzreniye in Togliatti, who was shot in 2002; Larisa Yudina, editor of the opposition newspaper Sovetskaya Kalmykia, who was stabbed in southern Russia in 1998; Vladislav Listyev, executive director of the newly formed public television station ORT, who was shot in 1995 in Moscow; and Dmitry Kholodov, an investigative reporter for the Moscow newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, who was killed by a bomb concealed in a briefcase in 1994. http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061213-015130-9579r
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