20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered in the stairwell of her apartment block. In today’s Russian newspapers I found no mention of this anniversary.
20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered in the stairwell of her apartment block. In today’s Russian newspapers I found no mention of this anniversary.
Just to repeat the following:
Vatnik Soup :
On this day 20 years ago, Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Vladimir Putin’s 54th birthday.
She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing the atrocities committed during the Second Russian-Chechen War.
Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work during Putin’s rule, while more than 1,500 Russian journalists have been forced into exile since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine alone.
Anna was Ukrainian : her family name was Mazepa.
She has a street named after her in Tbilisi, at the initiative of Mikhail Saakashvili.