Anna Politkovskaya was an outstanding woman, devoted writer, and Human Rights activist. On October 7th 2006, a group of cowards assassinated her because they were afraid to face the truth. She was murdered because she exposed the crimes of the Russian government. Throughout the years Politkovskaya had been tracked down, followed, and investigated but that did not discourage her. Even after several failed assassination attempts, she kept going because she knew that she possessed a gift that was no match for the Russian government. She had the gift of writing, and wrote about the facts. Anna revealed the secrets that government tried kept hidden, and exposed their evil deeds. Even though her life was at stake she never gave up, she knew that it was her duty to keep the world informed. The world will never forget her. We salute Anna Politkovskaya.
posted by Justice For North Caucasus - Anna Politkovskaya. on November, 2001 as Anna Politkovskaya
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 reporting in Chechnya. "What torments me more than anything," Politkovskaya says in the interview, "is the thought that those people who wanted me to stop my work have succeeded."
Europe program consultant Emma Gray met with Politkovskaya in Vienna on October 26 [2001], to discuss the recent threats she has faced, her coverage of the conflict in Chechnya, and the current state of journalism in Russia.
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DFN Hosts Online Meeting with Journalist Anna Politkovskaya
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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 <http://dfn.org/meet>. No registration is required. Anyone may attend the meeting and post questions to Ms. Politkovskaya in the moderated forum. The chat will be in English, translated by author Andrey Kurkov. Anna Politkovskaya is an award-winning Russian journalist who covered the war in Chechnya. Her exposes of the atrocities there sparked international protests and forced her to flee her native land last month after she received death threats from the Russian military. Ms. Politkovskaya's articles were ... >>full
Novaya Gazeta Reporter Anna Politkovskaya flees to Vienna
posted by Justice For North Caucasus - Anna Politkovskaya. on October, 2001 as Anna Politkovskaya
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 rebel as reported by the army. Ten high-level officers including two generals died in the crash.
Politkovskaya said one of the officers, Lieutenant General Andrei Pozdnyakov, was on orders from President Vladimir Putin collecting information about the behavior of federal troops in Chechnya. She spoke with Pozdnyakov while he waited for the helicopter.
"He was supposed to make this report to Putin the next day and was carrying the documents," Politkovskaya said by telephone from Vienna.
posted by Justice For North Caucasus - Anna Politkovskaya. on July, 2001 as Anna Politkovskaya
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 call it an "anti-terrorist operation". You can round up the inhabitants of a village, shoot them in broad daylight, and come back for more the next day. You can chuck grenades into shelters packed with the sick and elderly. You can loose off a volley of missiles into a busy marketplace. As a country’s leader you can do all this, and still retain voting rights on the Council of Europe. President Bush may even invite ... >>full
posted by Justice For North Caucasus - Anna Politkovskaya. on March, 2001 as Anna Politkovskaya
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 of Russian casualties—that persuaded Yeltsin to sue for peace, and within a month General Aleksandr Lebed and the Chechens’ military commander Aslan Maskhadov had signed the Khasavyurt accords, seemingly bringing to an end the brutal conflict that has been dubbed ‘Yeltsin’s Vietnam’. Five years later, Russia is once again involved in a murderous war in Chechnya, waged as before largely on a civilian population living beneath ruins or in ‘filtration centres’ that echo unapologetically Nazi concentration ... >>full
posted by Justice For North Caucasus - Anna Politkovskaya. on as Anna Politkovskaya
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 of Russian casualties—that persuaded Yeltsin to sue for peace, and within a month General Aleksandr Lebed and the Chechens’ military commander Aslan Maskhadov had signed the Khasavyurt accords, seemingly bringing to an end the brutal conflict that has been dubbed ‘Yeltsin’s Vietnam’. Five years later, Russia is once again involved in a murderous war in Chechnya, waged as before largely on a civilian population living beneath ruins or in ‘filtration centres’ that echo unapologetically Nazi concentration ... >>full
posted by Justice For North Caucasus - Anna Politkovskaya. on February, 2001 as Anna Politkovskaya
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 received assurances that officials will investigate the Grozny grave and try to prosecute the killers. Locals unearthed the mass grave just days after journalist Anna Politkovskaya returned from Chechnya saying she had seen pits at a paratroopers' base that were used to hold Chechens. Politkovskaya, who was briefly detained by the military for allegedly having incorrect documents, said that Chechens were held in the pits until relatives could buy their release. She told CNN's Steve ... >>full
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