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Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya: "A Real Investigation Will only Be Possible if the Regime Changes," Her Son Says.

Twenty years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered, shot dead in the stairwell of her building in Moscow, on Vladimir Putin's birthday. Novaya Gazeta's investigative journalist, who denounced corruption and war crimes committed during the Second Chechnya War, was a virulent critic of the Russian president. If the shooter and organizer were convicted, the sponsors were never identified. Twenty years later, her son, Ilia Politkovski, returned to he…

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Center

Anna Politkovskaya wrote about, among other things, human rights violations in Russia and criticized Vladimir Putin.

·Helsinki, Finland
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Lean Left

The independent Russian journalist was killed 20 years ago: since then Putin's regime has wiped her out of public memory

·Italy
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Center

For opponents of the Kremlin, his murder has set a macabre milestone in the dive into Russia's authoritarianism.

·Montreal, Canada
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On October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya returned to her home in Moscow. She was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building at the age of 48. Twenty years later, her murder remains one of the most notorious crimes against a journalist in Russia, and the judicial response is incomplete: the people involved in the execution and organization were convicted, but not the person who ordered the murder. Politkovskaya worked for Novaya Gazeta and…

Center

Madrid, Oct 7 (EFE).- The human rights activist, also recognized for her opposition to the Russian-Chechen war and to the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead in the elevator of his apartment building in Moscow. The entry Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered today 20 years ago was first published in HolaNews.

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