Moscow Diary: Silenced critic
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posted by zaina19 on August, 2007 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/29/2007 2:07 AM Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 12:24 GMT 13:24 UK Moscow Diary: Silenced critic The BBC's James Rodgers describes the impression Anna Politkovskaya made on him, as Russia digests the prosecutor general's revelations about her murder. He also talks to a Bolshevik who not only reveres Lenin and Stalin but also praises the late Diana, Princess of Wales. His diary is published fortnightly. MEETING WITH A MURDER VICTIM Anna Politkovskaya Anna Politkovskaya remains influential even in death She was risking her life. She must have known it. I met Anna Politkovskaya twice. The first time we talked for more than an hour - mostly about her work in Chechnya. I was not living in Russia at the time. I had not been to Chechnya for some years. It was a summer afternoon. We drank tea in the sunshine. It could not have been further from the cruelty and misery of war in the Caucasus. I was impressed by her minute knowledge of every detail of the conflict and ... >> full
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Remains reopen tsar debate
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/29/2007 3:37 AM SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2007 Remains reopen tsar debate Tsar Nicholas abdicated in 1917 and he and his family were shot a year later Russian prosecutors have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last tsar and his family, after archaeologists claimed to have discovered the remains of the tsar's son and heir. The remains could end speculation that Alexi, the tsar's haemophiliac eldest son, and Maria, the tsar's daughter, survived while the rest of their family were killed on July 17, 1918. The reopening of the investigation into the matter may signal that the government is taking the recent find seriously. According to Sergei Pogorelov, an archaeologist at a regional centre for the preservation of historical and cultural monuments in Yekaterinburg, the area where the tsar and his family were shot dead, said that the spot where the remains were found appeared to correspond to a site described by Yakov Yurovsky, the leader of the family's killers. In video Watch Richard ... >> full
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Anna Politkovskaya's newspaper Novaya Gazeta, responds to the news
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/30/2007 1:48 AM Justice for Anna? Anna Politkovskaya's newspaper Novaya Gazeta, responds to the news of arrests in connection with her murder by Novaya Gazeta staff Anna Politkovskaya Anna Politkovskaya After the weekend's arrests, Novaya Gazeta, newspaper of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, responds to the news, and outlines how it sees the investigation in to the killing of its reporter continuing Ten people have been arrested in connection with the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. This was announced at a news conference given on August 27 by the General Prosecutor, Yuri Chaika. It was confirmed by the special investigator from the Prosecutor General’s Office, Pyotr Garibyan. Charges have been brought against the arrested concerning several episodes of criminal activity. The court legitimated detentions made from August 15-23 and sanctioned the arrests. Active investigations are now being carried out, including interrogations and searches. Of course, it’s too early to talk about solving Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. Not all the accomplices have been detained, while the guilt ... >> full
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Russia suggests Berezovsky was behind journalist's killing
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www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk Russia suggests Berezovsky was behind journalist's killing [Published: Tuesday 28, August 2007 - 08:19] Russian prosecutors have announced a breakthrough in the hunt for the killers of Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading journalist and prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, who was murdered last year. Conveniently for the Kremlin, the finger of suspicion points directly at President Vladimir Putin's main enemy, the exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky. The announcement came three days before what would have been Politkovskaya's 49th birthday, and almost a year after she was shot dead in a hail of bullets in the lift of her Moscow apartment building early last October. The Russian prosecutor-general, Yuri Chaika, said at a press conference in Moscow yesterday that 10 arrests had been made, including the direct organisers, accomplices and the assassin himself. Figures within the Russian Interior Ministry and secret services have been arrested as accomplices to the crime, but it was hinted that the mastermind of the murder was the oligarch living outside Russia. The person who ordered the crime, said Mr ... >> full
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Berezovsky Masterminded Murders of Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, Tregubova, Lugovoy Said
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/30/2007 2:22 AM Aug. 29, 2007 Berezovsky Masterminded Murders of Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, Tregubova, Lugovoy Said Boris Berezovsky has masterminded a chain of murders, including of Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, Tregubova, Andrey Lugovoy told Britain’s journalists today, PRIME-TASS reported. Once the FSB officer, Lugovoy is thought by Britain the main suspect of murdering another former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko and his extradition is strongly demanded. “At the meeting with Berezovsky held in London in late October of 2006, only one topic was under discussion – arranging protection for Elena Tregubova,” Lugovoy said. “Having analyzed Berezovsky’s persistent interest towards whether or not the protection of this journalist would be executed in the name of an employee of my firm,” he concluded “that Boris Abramovich was preparing an alibi for himself and simultaneously building a chain to remove Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, Tregubova or Politkovskaya, Tregubova, Litvinenko.” A young journalist Elena Tregubova had worked in the so-called Kremlin pool for some time. She wrote scandalous Tales of a Kremlin Digger and ... >> full
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