France24 (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Two years before she was killed in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment, Anna Politkovskaya mused about life as the Kremlin's number one enemy and pronounced it a "miracle" that she was still alive. The journalist, lauded for her fearless reporting of Russian atrocities in Chechnya, made the comment during the interviews that make up the moving documentary film "Lettre a Anna"...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
[JURIST] A lawyer for the man accused of the double murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova said Friday that his client has confessed to the crime. Nikita Tikhonov and female companion Yevgenia Khasis were arrested Thursday and brought before the Basmanny District Court. In an interview on the radio program Echo Moskvy, Tikhonov's lawyer, Yevgeny Skripelev,...
Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The AP reports that one man has confessed to the murders of human rights attorney Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was assassinated in 2006, was one of Mr. Markelov's clients. Nikita Tikhonov, another journalist, is...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Guardian: Russian far-right activists arrested for murder of journalist and lawyer Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova were gunned down in Moscow earlier this year Investigators today said they had solved one of Russia 's most notorious killings and had arrested two far-right activists for the murders of the human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Fears for safety of Russian human rights campaigner Arbi Khachukayev after he is flown to Chechnya A Russian human rights group today said that gunmen loyal to Chechnya's pro-Kremlin president had abducted a human rights activist in Moscow and flown him to Chechnya. Chechen security officials grabbed Arbi Khachukayev this afternoon and then bundled him on to a flight to Chechnya's capital, Grozny,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova were gunned down in Moscow earlier this year Investigators today said they had solved one of Russia's most notorious killings and had arrested two far-right activists for the murders of the human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist Anastasia Baburova. Markelov – a friend of the assassinated journalist Anna...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009 : Russia has seen an alarming rise in the murders of journalists and activists speaking out about government abuses in the embattled North Caucasus region. We speak to Elena Milashina, a Russian investigative journalist who has just won the 2009 Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism from Human Rights Watch. She was friends with both the activist and journalist...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Tbilisi authorities have decided to name a street in Vake-Saburtalinsky district of Georgia's capital after Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead by an unknown killer three years ago.
Russia Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
There are signs of human rights progress in Russia. Editors of Novaya Gazeta, home to the reporter, Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered three years ago seem to feel confident that the killers are known. The unsolved Politkovskaya murder has bedeviled...
The Liberal Doomsayer (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
(And I also posted here .} Glad to see that, with the FHA now having solvency issues ( here ), Italy PM “Uh Oh” Silvio Berlusconi in trouble again ( here ) and the recent third anniversary of the slaying of journalist Anna Politkovskaya on Tuesday (and kudos to HRC for this ), U.S. News is still performing cutting-edge, trailblazing reporting. Ugh…
Free Media Online Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Comment by Free Media Online, FreeMediaOnline.org: Secretary of State Clinton’s statement on the third anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya is a positive step on the part of the Obama Administration, which has been far too tolerant of media freedom and human rights abuses in countries like Russia and China. But even this [...] ShareThis
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Just over three years ago the Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered – one of at least 17 journalists to have been murdered in the last decade under the regime of Putin and his sidekick Medvedev. In only one of these 17 cases have the killers been brought to justice, even though in many [...]
Free Media Online Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
By not giving them visas, the Russian authorities prevented two Reporters Without Borders representatives, including secretary-general Jean-François Julliard, from travelling to Moscow to hold a news conference there today (October 6, 2009), on the eve of the third anniversary of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. READ MORE ShareThis
Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Wendy's in da kitchen (again)! Looking for love? Are you a guy w/double eyelids? Here's your dreammate ! More about "love" - An artifical hymen kit is now available in the market. Egyptian law makers have banned the product while bloggers continue to debate the cons and pros of this Chinese 'invention' - and question its morality. To promote nationalism and celebrate the 60th anniversary...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Hundreds of people rallied in Moscow to mark the third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who was a harsh critic of the Kremlin.
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