Photo: AP Photo: AP A Sobering Effect of Politkovskaya’s Killing
09.10.2006
MosNews The killing of Anna Politkovskaya, one of the few journalists who had refused to keep their mouths shut and continued to criticize harshly the Putin regime, has had a sobering effect on the Russians.
People responded to her death on Saturday, October 7, with anger and frustration, even those who had argued with her when she was alive, those who had laughed at her efforts and accusations she hurled at the official authorities, the Russian military and Moscow proteges in Chechnya.
People carried flowers to a house where she lived in downtown Moscow — and where she was murdered — and placed flowers and candles outside the offices of a newspaper where she worked.
Hundreds meanwhile rallied in Moscow’s Pushkin Square to protest her murder as well as the Russian crackdown on Georgians since a spy row erupted last week.
Underneath a photograph of Politkovskaya, one poster ... >>full
Photo: AP Photo: AP Russian Journalists Skeptical of Probe Into Anna Politkovskaya’s Killing
09.10.2006
MosNews Leading Russian journalists, international journalism watchdogs and Western governments condemned the killing of Anna Politkovskaya and demanded a thorough probe into the attack though many doubt that those behind the killing will be brought to justice.
Russia has become a deadly place for journalists who run afoul of government officials or their business and political partners, The Associated Press wrote Sunday. Those behind the killings, though, are rarely brought to justice, reinforcing a sense of impunity that may have encouraged the killers of Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the war in Chechnya.
As the European Union and the U.S. demanded a thorough probe into Saturday’s contract-style killing, there was skepticism that the authorities would ever uncover the culprits of the latest in a series of killings of journalists in Russia under President Vladimir Putin, who has been increasingly accused of rolling ... >>full
US: Journo's murder shocking Publication time: 8 October 2006, 10:58
The United States on Saturday expressed shock at the murder of investigative Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and urged Moscow to bring to justice those responsible.
"The United States is shocked and profoundly saddened by the brutal murder of independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed today in her Moscow apartment building," US State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack said in a statement.
Calling Politkovskaya a "highly respected and tireless investigative reporter and author" who worked in the face of death threats, McCormack said the United States extends "deepest sympathies to her family."
"The United States urges the Russian government to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation in order to find, prosecute, and bring to justice all those responsible for this heinous murder," the spokesman said.
Politkovskaya won fame at home and abroad for her persistent and often harrowing reporting of atrocities by Russian forces and Chechen ... >>full
As democracy dies in Russia, another journalist is killed Posted 10/8/2006 7:57 PM ET
On Saturday, an outspoken Russian journalist named Anna Politkovskaya, 48, was murdered, execution style, as she stepped out of the elevator in her apartment building. The trademark report she was preparing for today's edition of her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta— about alleged Russian war crimes in Chechnya, sure to anger the Kremlin yet again — will be published only in part. Some of the information died with her.
Politkovskaya's murder was at least the 12th killing of journalist who had angered the Kremlin during President Vladimir Putin's six years in power. The Kremlin response was eloquent: As of late Sunday it was silent, even as the United States expressed shock and the European Union called the crime "heinous."
Though nobody can make a direct link to the Kremlin, it is emblematic of the Stalin-lite control Putin has gradually wielded. The former ... >>full
Vladimir Rakhmankov / Image by MosNews Vladimir Rakhmankov / Image by MosNews Website Editor on Trial for Picturing Putin as Russia’s Phallic Symbol
22.09.2006
MosNews The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the prosecution for criminal insult of a Russian journalist who satirized President Vladimir Putin’s campaign to boost the birth rate, the group said in a statement published on its official website.
Vladimir Rakhmankov, editor-in-chief of the independent news Web site Kursiv, went on trial today in the city of Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow, charged with insulting the president in a May article titled “Putin as Russia’s phallic symbol.” The article satirized Putin’s goal, outlined in the president’s state of the nation address in May, of increasing Russia’s population.
If convicted under Article 319 of Russia’s criminal code, “Insulting a Public Official,” Rakhmankov could face up to 12 months of corrective labor. Local prosecutors brought the case without the involvement of Putin or presidential ... >>full
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