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‘Secret Witness’ Detained In Politkovskaya Killing

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:43:13 -0700

‘Secret Witness’ Detained in Politkovskaya Killing

24 August 2011

Investigators have detained the suspected organizer of the murder of journalistAnna Politkovskayain 2006 — who, it turns out, was a mumbling secret witness for prosecutors at a failed trial into her killing.

Politkovskaya's family and colleagues welcomed the development but said it should have come years ago. They also voiced fears the suspect, retired senior Moscow police investigator Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, would be made a scapegoat, allowing the still-unidentified mastermind of the killing to evade justice.

Pavlyuchenkov was detained late Tuesday, and a Moscow district court ...

RETIRED POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF ORGANIZING POLITKOVSKAYA MURDER

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:36:33 -0700

RETIRED POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF ORGANIZING POLITKOVSKAYA MURDER

PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2011.

Reporters Without Borders is delighted to learn that the Russian authorities yesterday arrested a retired Moscow police officer on suspicion of organizing the 2006 murder of Novaya Gazetareporter Anna Politkovskaya in return for money.

"This is a major step that is long overdue,” Reporters Without Borders said. "We are pleased that after four years of foot-dragging there now seems to be a real determination to ...

EnhanceTV: Letter To Anna TV & Video

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:19:21 -0700

Letter To Anna TV & Video

On October 7, 2006, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in the lift of her Moscow apartment building. She had been a strident critic of the government of President Putin and it was widely thought that her murder was a political act.

Over a 12 month period, from 2003 to 2004 the director Erick Bergkraut filmed exclusive interviews with Anna for another story. He ended up with several hours of interviews ...

CK: European Parliament Commemorates Anna Politkovskaya

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:18:23 -0700

European Parliament commemorates Anna Politkovskaya

Oct 07 2010, 22:50

On October 6, the European Parliament paid tribute to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, assassinated right four years ago.

"October 7 marks the fourth anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya's murder. She paid the ultimate price for dedicating her life to revealing the truth about the situation in the North-Caucasian region of Russia," said Jerzy Buzek, Chairman of the European Parliament, at a plenary session.

Mr Buzek called Russian authorities to investigate the murders of Politkovskaya and ...

Washington Post: Recalling A Journalist And An Era

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:48:23 -0700

Recalling a journalist and an era

By Kathy Lally
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, October 8, 2010; A8

MOSCOW - Perhaps 200 people, more elderly than not, gathered Thursday in the late afternoon sunlight near a busy Moscow metro station to challenge the authorities and to remember a dead journalist.

The authorities were watching. They had dispatched three busloads of young men - and a few young women - special police in black leather jackets and black berets. An ambulance ...

IFJ: IFJ Marks Fourth Anniversary Of Anna Politkovskaya Murder By Call For Justice

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:33:36 -0700

07 October 2010

IFJ Marks Fourth Anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya Murder by Call for Justice

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today marked the fourth anniversary of the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya by urging the Russian authorities to ensure justice for her and her long-suffering family and colleagues.

"Her killer has been named but not caught, his alleged accomplices have been put on trial but acquitted, and those behind her murder appear to have got away ...

PUTIN'S COLONIAL WAR

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0700

PUTIN'S COLONIAL WAR
On 6 August 1996, three days before Yeltsin was to stumble through the especially shortened ceremony inaugurating his second term as Russian President, Chechen forces suddenly attacked and recaptured a string of major towns, including the battle-blasted capital, Grozny. It was the success of this assault—coupled with the unending and increasingly unpopular stream of Russian casualties—that persuaded Yeltsin to sue for peace, and within a month General Aleksandr Lebed and the Chechens’ military ...

Anna Politkovskaya Had Only One Enemy...

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Anna Politkovskaya Had Only One Enemy...

A great lady, outstanding journalist, and Human Rights activist was on an appointment with her destiny, when the cowards sent an evil agent, that was designated by his bosses and superiors to assassin the empty-handed lady that got no weapons to defend herself!

They wanted her to go out of existence and out of their evil ways and means, assuming that ...

What has become of us?

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700

What has become of us?
By Anna Politkovskaya
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
MOSCOW
We are using Stalin's methods again, this time to fight terrorism. I write here on a subject that one can no longer write about in Russia -- islamskiy terrorizm, or Islamic terrorism cases.
There are hundreds of such cases going through the courts in our country. Most have been fabricated by the government so that the special services can demonstrate how "effective" Russia is ...

Stalinism Forever

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Stalinism Forever
By Anna Politkovskaya
Saturday, April 1, 2006; A17
MOSCOW -- We are using Stalin's methods again, this time to fight terrorism. I am writing for this American newspaper on a subject that one can no longer write about in Russia -- islamskiy terrorizm, or Islamic terrorism cases. There are hundreds of such cases going through the courts in our country. Most of them have been fabricated by the government so that the special services can demonstrate ...

Poison in the air

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Poison in the air

When a sinister illness hit schoolchildren and their teachers in war-torn Chechnya in December, doctors were convinced it was a case of poisoning. Then the government came up with its own diagnosis - mass hysteria. Is there an official cover-up going on? Anna Politkovskaya reports

Wednesday March 1, 2006
The Guardian
Awar has been raging in the north Caucasian Republic of Chechnya in the Russian Federation since November 1994. Over the years, ...

Pro-Democracy international award announced

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Pro-Democracy international award announced
Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist whose dispatches from the war in Chechnya have led to death threats and poisoning, and Min Ko Naing, a Burmese pro-democracy advocate who endured fifteen years of imprisonment and torture, will receive the Civil Courage Prize on Oct. 11.
The Civil Courage Prize of $50,000 honors steadfast resistance to injustice at great personal risk. It has been awarded annually since 2000 by the Northcote Parkinson Fund. In ...

A Russian Reporter In Chechnya

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

A Russian Reporter In Chechnya
Anna Politkovskaya is a special correspondent for the bi-weekly Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Her reports from the southern Russian republic, Chechnya, have angered authorities.

Once detained by Russian troops herself in Chechnya, she has experienced the conflict both as a reporter and a victim. She talks to Outlook about her new book A Dirty War.

Anna Politkovskaya has made social issues her business. As a journalist she has reported on many subjects ...

Russian newspaper claims Russia could have abducted Chechen representative Ahmed Zakayev in Helsink

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Russian newspaper claims Russia could have abducted Chechen representative Ahmed Zakayev in Helsink

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's recent article in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, about the replaced Chechen president Aslan Mashadov's special representative Ahmed Zakayev's cancelled seminar trip to Finland, has provoked a minor sensation in Russia.

According to the article, Finland's Minister of Justice Johannes Koskinen had said to the organisers of the seminar, the Green League MPs Heidi Hautala and Matti Wuori, that "he ...

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
Many analysts including Chechen ones, express opinion, that the next Russian-Chechen war was favorable to Putin in the beginning of his career to come to the authority and to become stronger in the Kremlin, but now Putin would like "a pacification of the Caucasus", as he has already built his "vertical of authority" and does not need propaganda use of "the Chechen card" any more. To the question, ...

Fears grow over Putin's control of Russian media

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Fears grow over Putin's control of Russian media
Reporter: Emma Griffiths
TONY JONES: To Russia, where political control of the media has been a growing concern ever since President Vladimir Putin came to power five years ago.

But after the tragic school siege in Beslan last month, there are fears that government control is reaching a new extreme.

Some journalists were detained.

Some suspect they were even drugged to prevent them from reaching the North Ossetian town to report on ...

Disquiet On The Chechen Front

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Disquiet On The Chechen Front
Anna Politkovskaya, Russia
BY YURI ZARAKHOVICH | MOSCOW
Anna Politkovskaya, a correspondent for the Moscow biweekly Novaya Gazeta, was in Los Angeles last October, picking out her dress for a media awards ceremony, when some staggering news came from Moscow: Chechen terrorists were holding 850 hostages in a theater. The Russian authorities tried to send in negotiators, but the Chechens refused to see most of them. They asked for Politkovskaya.
And ...

Dispatches from a savage war

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Dispatches from a savage war

Poison and death threats won't stop Anna Politkovskaya from reporting the truth about Chechnya. She talks to James Meek

Friday October 15, 2004
The Guardian
Anna Politkovskaya was born into Soviet high society; the kind of privileged, metropolitan elite that knew abroad better than it knew the factories of the Urals, and whose children were guaranteed comfortable jobs in the rambling bureaucracies of Moscow.
Half a life later, in her 40s ...

Poisoned by Putin

Thu, 09 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Poisoned by Putin

The horror of Beslan was made still worse by the intimidation of Russia's servile media

Anna Politkovskaya
Thursday September 9, 2004
The Guardian
It is the morning of September 1. Reports from North Ossetia are hard to believe: a school in Beslan has been seized. Half an hour to pack my things as my mind works furiously on how to get to the Caucasus. And another thought: to look for the Chechen separatist leader, ...

What Happened to Anna Politkovskaya

Sat, 04 Sep 2004 00:01:00 -0700

What Happened to Anna Politkovskaya

At time of these tragic days hundreds of our colleagues, state officials and readers expressed their concern about the fate of our observer Anna Politkovskaya. They believed that her presence at Beslan could have proved useful. However, Politkovskaya did not reach Beslan.
In the evening on September 1 Politkovskaya went to Vnukovo Airport in the Novaya Gazeta editor’s car. She had contacted a number of Russian politicians and the representative of Maskhadov ...

What happened to Anna Politkovskaya?

Sat, 04 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Novaya Gazeta

What happened to Anna Politkovskaya?

Details about the health status of our reporter and the events of 1 - 2
September in Rostov-on-Don.

In the days of this tragedy, hundreds of our colleagues, civil servants,
readers were interested in our reporter's fate. They assumed that her
presence in Beslan could be useful. But Politkovskaya didn't arrive in
Beslan.

...First of September, evening. Politkovskaya is sent to "Vnukovo" in
the ...

Reporter: My Chechen Sources Were Killed

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Reporter: My Chechen Sources Were Killed
Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya has said that many of the residents of Chechen villages who complained to her in February that paratroopers from a nearby base were kidnapping villagers for ransom were later killed by the military in retaliation.
"Those who spoke openly to me, ignoring any [possible] consequences, are not alive any more," Politkovskaya wrote in this week's issue of the newspaper.
"They disappeared. They were murdered. Their corpses were ...

Anna Politkovskaya

Mon, 05 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Anna Politkovskaya - the well-known war reporter of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, arrived by helicopter to the village of Khankala on Thursday afternoon. There she had to undergo thorough questioning on details of her detention in Chechnya that took place shortly beforehand. Politkovskaya plans to return to Moscow on Friday. NTV correspondents met with the journalist in Khankala. Anna told them she had been brought to Khankala near 2:00 pm Moscow time on Thursday. Prior ...

Anna Politkovskaya: Putin, poison and my struggle for freedom

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Anna Politkovskaya: Putin, poison and my struggle for freedom

She has been poisoned by men she suspects worked for Russia's secret service and held in a pit in Chechnya for three days by men she knows for certain worked for the successor of the KGB.

But Anna Politkovskaya, Russia's most famous investigative journalist and the most outspoken member of the country's increasingly enfeebled media establishment, has not buckled under the pressure.

Yesterday her most searing critique of the ...

Anna Politkovskaya tells

Wed, 26 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Anna Politkovskaya tells
Conversed Marcin Wojciechowski 26-05-2004, last update 26-05-2004 19:13
Link: http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/swiat/1,34174,2094754.html
Marcin Wojciechowski: Where this video-movie, which shows the guards unloading Chechens from trucks and loading them to those prison railroad cars has been taken?
Anna Politkovskaya: That was on a railroad side-track near the Chervlyonnya station in the northern Chechnya. People who could be seen in this video are the fighters captured after the battle for Komsomolskoye on the turn of February-March ...

ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA, JOURNALIST

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0700

ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA
JOURNALIST, NOVAYA GAZETA :
I have a lot of links with Maskhadov's people. My point of view was Maskhadov needed to go to these bandits and say to them openly, please don't do it. Please free all the kids. After midday until evening, of course, I discussed all these details about maybe Maskhadov's future departure to Beslan. In absolutely the open air of mobile phones.

WARK:
What happened to you when you got on the plane to ...

Politkovskaya's Duty Is to Cover Chechnya's War

Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Politkovskaya's Duty Is to Cover Chechnya's War

(WOMENSENEWS)--Anna Politkovskaya was exhausted on a late Sunday night in December.
A mother of two and one of Russia's most daring journalists, she has made a career of covering the wars in Chechnya. That evening she had been out in the cold protesting the disappearance of democratic freedoms in Russia in central Moscow. The march, which was scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of the Battle of Moscow during the ...

OSCE Prize for Journalism

Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700

OSCE Prize for Journalism
and Democracy 2003
Anna Politkovskaya
Leading Russian Journalist and Burmese Pro-Democracy Campaigner to Receive International Award
Anna Politkovskaya, Russia, and Min Ko Naing, Burma
New York, NY – Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist whose dispatches from the war in Chechnya have led to death threats and poisoning, and Min Ko Naing, a Burmese pro-democracy advocate who endured fifteen years of imprisonment and torture, will receive the 2005 Civil Courage Prize on October 11.
The Civil Courage Prize ...

Anna Politkovskaya in conversation with Jonathan Steele

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Anna Politkovskaya in conversation with Jonathan Steele

Anna Politkovskaya was in conversation with Jonathan Steele, Senior Foreign Editor of the Guardian recently, to discuss her new book Putin’s Russia, the first title to be supported by English PEN’s Writers in Translation programme. The event took place at the Frontline Club (in collaboration with whom the event was arranged), and saw a sell-out crowd eager to listen to the views of one of Russia’s leading journalists.

Steele ...

Anna Politkovskaya

Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Anna Politkovskaya, special correspondent for the Russian twice-weekly newspaper Novaya Gazeta, published in Moscow. She received her Diploma in Journalism from Moscow State University in 1980, and has since worked on a number of newspapers as a correspondent and editor. She has a particular interest in Chechnya, and has written extensively on the subject, including the book A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya (Harvill, 2001). She acted as a mediator in the Nord-Ost theatre siege ...

Disquiet On The Chechen Front

Sun, 20 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Disquiet On The Chechen Front

Anna Politkovskaya, a correspondent for the Moscow biweekly Novaya Gazeta, was in Los Angeles last October, picking out her dress for a media awards ceremony, when some staggering news came from Moscow: Chechen terrorists were holding 850 hostages in a theater. The Russian authorities tried to send in negotiators, but the Chechens refused to see most of them. They asked for Politkovskaya.

And so Politkovskaya ...

The 'Sons' Rise In Chechnya

Sun, 03 Nov 2002 00:00:00 -0700

The 'Sons' Rise In Chechnya
Date: November 3, 2002
Source: The Washington Post
By Anna Politkovskaya
MOSCOW, RUSSIA -- Abubakar lifts the black mask covering his face. We are staring, examining each other at close quarters. We are both trying to understand what's going to happen when this, yet another Russian tragedy, is over. Abubakar, a 29-year-old Chechen, looks 40. He is deputy commander of the terrorist group that has taken several hundred people hostage. I am a journalist ...

Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya to Help in Hostage Negotiations in Moscow

Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya to Help in Hostage Negotiations in Moscow

Los Angeles, California, October 24, 2002 -- Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist with the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta who was scheduled to receive a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation during ceremonies in Los Angeles tonight, has flown home to help in negotiations with Chechen rebels who are holding up to 700 people hostage in a Moscow theater.
Politkovskaya received word late ...

A WAR WITHOUT HEROES

Sun, 30 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0700

A WAR WITHOUT HEROES
“A nation where the number of heroes is regarded restricted information meant only for those officials who give out awards while real heroes get no awards at all is powerless indeed. It will lose all its wars, because it is always in the wrong place and on the wrong side”.

It’s difficult to argue with these bitter words of Anna Politkovskaya, especially since the author of these lines was as unsuccessful in his ...

Chechnya: Articles by Anna Politkovskaya

Sun, 19 May 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Children of Chechen "Spetzoperations"
by Anna Politkovskaya
Novaya Gazeta
May 19 2002
Do you still think you should be supporting the war in Chechnya because of some aim that's being pursued, so things wouldn't get worse? We have reached a stage in Russia now, where every schoolchild knows that Chechnya is being "cleaned", and adults no longer bother with the inverted commas.
"Zachistka" in this sense entails thoroughly sorting out someone or something and, on the whole, ...

Chechnya: New Russian Atrocities Exposed

Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Chechnya: New Russian Atrocities Exposed
Date: March 28, 2002
Source: IWPR (CRS No. 122, 28-Mar-02)
By Anna Politkovskaya
Russian troops engaged in new levels of extortion, looting and rape in their recent eight-day operation in the Chechen village of Stariye Atagi.
The inhabitants of this southern Chechen village are so used to surviving from one Russian military "clean-up" operation to the next that they talk about their lives in a surreal fashion. "Do you remember, that was during clean-up number ...

Akhmad Kadyrov: Had I been the dictator of Chechnya

Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Akhmad Kadyrov: Had I been the dictator of Chechnya
Date: March 22, 2002
Source: Novaya Gazeta (No. 20)
By Anna Politkovskaya
An interview with Akhmad Kadyrov, head of the administration of Chechnya
Author: Akhmad Kadyrov discusses the current situation in Chechnya, and gives his views on what the federal government, the military, and the people of Chechnya ought to do. He believes the war in Chechnya will be over soon, most likely by autumn this year.

Question: What do you think ...

Russia's whistle blower

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:01:00 -0700

Russia's whistle blower
Date: March 16, 2002
Source: The Guardian
By David Hearst
In Chechnya, there is now just one lone Russian voice remaining to chronicle the lives of those embroiled in the killing and corruption that have become the hallmark of President Putin's efforts to bring the province under the control of Moscow. Her name is Anna Politkovskaya, and she is not about to give up the fight

She is Russia's least wanted journalist. She's been held overnight in ...

Anna Politkovskaya, Russia's whistle blower

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0700

Anna Politkovskaya, Russia's whistle blower
16 March 2002
David Hearst, The Guardian
She is Russia's least wanted journalist. She's been held overnight in the torture cells she was investigating, threatened with rape, and received numerous death threats. Her reporting has stirred the wrath of Russia's most powerful and unfettered institutions - the Kremlin, the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the GRU, the military intelligence. She has been forced to flee the country, work under the surveillance of ...

The corrosive evil of the Chechen conflict

Tue, 05 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0700

The corrosive evil of the Chechen conflict
Date: February 5, 2002
Source: Index on Censorship
By Anna Politkovskaya
A look at the ferocious misery of Chechnya and the "other" war on terrorism
"People who were my witnesses and informants in Chechnya have died for that reason, and that reason alone, as soon as I left their homes. How am I go on living abroad while others are dying in my place?"
Just before my last trip to Chechnya in mid-September my ...

Silenced Voice: Anna Politkovskaya

Mon, 03 Dec 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Silenced Voice: Anna Politkovskaya
by Siobhan Dowd, with the cooperation of the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN, London
(December 3, 2001) The Daily Telegraph reports that "she looks more like a spinster aunt than a hardened war correspondent" and The Guardian suggests she is Russia's "lost moral conscience." To human rights professionals she is a heroine in her time; and to her teenage children, her recent exile renders her an all-too-absent mother. But all agree ...

Remember Chechnya

Wed, 14 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Remember Chechnya
Source: Washington Post
By Anna Politkovskaya
Date: November 14, 2001
Three years ago Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power by launching a war in Chechnya that is still referred to in Russia as an anti-terrorist operation. The war continues, with almost 4,000 Russian soldiers having been killed and more than 13,000 wounded. Why?
In Russia, the disjunction between official statistics and real life is as great as that between Putin and democratic freedoms, an issue President Bush ...

See No Evil: An Interview with Anna Politkovskaya

Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0700

See No Evil: An Interview with Anna Politkovskaya
Emma Gray, Europe Program Consultant, CPJ
November 13, 2001

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today released an exclusive interview with exiled Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a correspondent [until October 2001] with the Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta, who is known for her investigative reports on human rights abuses committed by the Russian military in Chechnya.

Politkovskaya fled Russia to Vienna in early October after she received death threats related to her ...

DFN Hosts Online Meeting with Journalist Anna Politkovskaya

Fri, 09 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0700

DFN Hosts Online Meeting with Journalist Anna Politkovskaya
Exiled Author to Discuss Chechnya and Russia's Role in the Fight against Terrorism
NEWARK, N.J., November 9, 2001 — The Digital Freedom Network (DFN) will host an online meeting with Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on Thursday, November 15 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM New York Time (Thursday, 9:00-10:00 PM GMT).
The online meeting, which is free and open to the public, will take place on DFN's Web site at ...

Novaya Gazeta Reporter Anna Politkovskaya flees to Vienna

Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Novaya Gazeta Reporter Anna Politkovskaya flees to Vienna

12 October 2001

The Moscow Times
By Yevgenia Borisova, Staff Writer
Reuters

Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, known for her reporting of human rights abuses in Chechnya, has fled to Vienna after receiving threats on her life.

Politkovskaya said Thursday that she believed the threats were connected to a story she wrote that suggested a military helicopter shot down last month in Grozny had been fired on by Russian troops, not a lone ...

THE INVISIBLE WAR

Sat, 14 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0700

THE INVISIBLE WAR
By: David Hearst
Source: The Guardian (UK), 14 July 2001; through Johnson’s Russia List.
"A Dirty War"
Anna Politkovskaya
336 pp, Harvill, £12
David Hearst reads brave dispatches from Chechnya, a land where there is officially no conflict, in A Dirty War by Anna Politkovskaya, and hopes that the truth will out.
There is a corner of what is still geographically known as Europe where anything goes. Here you can raze cities to the ground and ...

PUTIN’S COLONIAL WAR

Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:01:00 -0700

PUTIN’S COLONIAL WAR
Anna Politkovskaya, A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya
Harvill Press: London 2001, £12, paperback
xxxiii, 336 pp, 1 86046 897 7
On 6 August 1996, three days before Yeltsin was to stumble through the especially shortened ceremony inaugurating his second term as Russian President, Chechen forces suddenly attacked and recaptured a string of major towns, including the battle-blasted capital, Grozny. It was the success of this assault—coupled with the unending and increasingly unpopular stream ...

PUTIN’S COLONIAL WAR

Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Chechnya abuses under investigation

Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:00:00 -0700

Chechnya abuses under investigation
February 27, 2001
Web posted at: 3:27 PM EST (2027 GMT)
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- The Council of Europe's human rights supremo has begun a fact-finding trip to Chechnya as new allegations of military abuses surface in the region.
Alvaro Gil-Robles flew to Chechnya after pressing Russian officials to investigate who killed 16 people found in a trench in the regional capital Grozny.
The human rights commissioner for the Strasbourg-based watchdog said he has ...