Russian President Vladimir Putin takes his seat as Presidents Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan and Lukashenko of Belarus talk during a CIS summit over the weekend. (Photo: Reuters) President Vladimir Putin has removed Andrei Kazmin as chief executi...
Activists of Kremlin-backed youth group Nashi rally to mark the 55th birthday of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in downtown Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007. The signs on t-shirts with stylized Putin’s portrait read: ‘Our Choice!&...
Here are some links to what people are saying about Anna Politkovskaya today. Novaya Gazeta: Anya’s phone number (495) 798-10-34 Reuters: Supporters demand justice for slain Kremlin critic Guardian: “Keeping hope alive” by Robert Ménar...
People lay flowers alongside a photograph of journalist Anna Politkovskaya at an apartment building where Politkovskaya was killed to mark the first anniversary of her slaying, Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007. (AP Photo) Anna Politkovskaya’s fo...
In the past this blog has featured translations of the work of one of Russia’s most brilliant human rights lawyers, Stanislav Markelov, on the filtration camps of Blagoveshchensk. In Anna’s memory, we are pleased to feature an exclusiv...
A Word about Anna Grigory Pasko, journalist In Italy, they’ve put up a memorial plaque in honor of Anna. In Russia, there are no plaques and I doubt there will be any under today’s power: we all remember with what unconcealed irritation Putin had ...
Back in March, we alerted our blog readers to the following documentary which featured an interview with Anna Politkovskaya. Unfortunately I can’t embed the video on the blog, so just click here to view it. Although the film dates to 2005, i...
In honor of Anna Politkovskaya, who was brutally murdered one year ago today, we are posting the following excerpt of Scott Simon’s foreword from her posthumous collection of writings, “A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Account of ...
The Absurd and its Theater Grigory Pasko, journalist A couple of months ago, when I was filling in my visa application at the Australian embassy, I honestly wrote that I had had a criminal conviction. The embassy employees asked me to provide an o...
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