Death of the woman who shamed Moscow
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2006 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/9/2006 4:19 AM Death of the woman who shamed Moscow Publication time: 8 October 2006, 11:01 RUSSIA'S most famous investigative reporter, Anna Politkovskaya, was gunned down in the lift of her Moscow apartment block yesterday in an apparent contract killing. A fearless opponent of Russia's wars in Chechnya who once described President Vladimir Putin as a "KGB snoop" and compared him to Stalin, she was shot as she returned home from a shopping trip at 4.30pm. A pistol and four bullets were found near her body. She was the most prominent of dozens of Russian journalists murdered in the past 10 years and her death has dealt a serious blow to the country's reputation. Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president, said: "It's a strike against all the democratic independent press, a terrible crime against the entire country, against all of us." Last night police were hunting a young man who was caught on a video camera in the hall of the apartment block wearing a black baseball ... >> full
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In praise of ... Anna Politkovskaya
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/9/2006 5:49 AM In praise of ... Anna Politkovskaya Leader Monday October 9, 2006 The Guardian "People sometimes pay with their lives for saying out loud what they think," Anna Politkovskaya told a conference on press freedom last December. On Saturday she was killed outside her apartment in Moscow - an assassination that ended the life of one of Russia's bravest and most brilliant journalists, and set back the cause of freedom in her country. In books and articles, including several for this paper, she confronted repression and deceit in all its forms, well aware of the risk she was running. More than any other journalist, she defied both the Russian state and Chechen rebel forces to expose the brutality of the Chechen war, which has been sustained by Moscow, often in secret, for 12 years. Her sympathies as a writer and campaigner always lay with the civilian victims of a conflict they had done nothing to start and could do nothing to resolve. ... >> full
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· Reporter was investigating torture in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Putin silent as fiercest critic is murdered · Reporter was investigating torture in Chechnya · Protesters blame Kremlin for apartment shooting Tom Parfitt in Moscow Monday October 9, 2006 The Guardian Protesters demonstrate against the murder of Anna Politkovskaya Protesters demonstrate against the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Photograph: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP A crowd of protesters gathered in central Moscow yesterday to express their anger at the assassination of the crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who at the weekend became the 13th Russian journalist to be killed in a contract-style killing since President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000. Politkovskaya, 48, had today been due to publish an article on torture and kidnappings by pro-Moscow forces in the restless southern republic of Chechnya, her colleagues said. The prosecutor general took personal control of the investigation yesterday, but Mr Putin made no comment on the killing of one of the country's best-known public figures and his fiercest critic. Politkovskaya, who won international acclaim for exposing the brutality of Russian forces in Chechnya, was shot dead in the lift ... >> full
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Investigative Russian journalist killed
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/10/2006 7:35 AM Investigative Russian journalist killed Updated 10/8/2006 3:04 AM ET MOSCOW (AP) — The investigative journalist who was shot dead in her Moscow apartment building had been finishing up a story about torture and abductions in Chechnya, her colleagues said Sunday. Anna Politkovskaya, who had chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya in the outspoken newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was found dead Saturday in the elevator in her building. She had two gunshot wounds — one to the head. She had been working on a story about torture and abductions in Chechnya, having collected witness accounts and photos of tortured bodies, said Dmitry Muratov, the paper's editor-in-chief, and his deputy Vitaly Yerushensky. The story had been due for publication Monday, they told NTV television and Ekho Moskvy radio. "Today we don't know who killed her," Novaya Gazeta wrote on its website, adding that it had two main scenarios. "It was either revenge by (Kremlin-backed Chechen Prime Minister) Ramzan Kadyrov, about whose actions she spoke ... >> full
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Russian Footprints. What does Moscow have to do with the recent war in Lebanon?
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posted by zaina19 on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/10/2006 1:31 PM September, 10, 2006 Russian Footprints. What does Moscow have to do with the recent war in Lebanon? By Ion Mihai Pacepa The Kremlin may be the main winner in the Lebanon war. Israel has been attacked with Soviet Kalashnikovs and Katyushas, Russian Fajr-1 and Fajr-3 rockets, Russian AT-5 Spandrel antitank missiles and Kornet antitank rockets. Russia’s outmoded weapons are now all the rage with terrorists everywhere in the world, and the bad guys know exactly where to get them. The weapons cases abandoned by Hezbollah were marked: “Customer: Ministry of Defense of Syria. Supplier: KBP, Tula, Russia.” Today’s international terrorism was conceived at the Lubyanka, the headquarters of the KGB, in the aftermath of the1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East. I witnessed its birth in my other life, as a Communist general. Israel humiliated Egypt and Syria, whose bellicose governments were being run by Soviet razvedka (Russian for “foreign intelligence”) advisers, whereupon the Kremlin decided to arm Israel’s enemy neighbors, ... >> full
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