Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (Russian: Анна Степановна Политковская; 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and the Putin administration. She held Russian and US citizenship.^[1] She was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building on 7 October 2006. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... “NY” redirects here. ... is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Moscow (Moskva) (Russian: , romanised: Moskva, IPA: see also other names) is the capital of Russia and the countrys economic, financial, educational, and transportation centre. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Combatants Russian Federation Pro-Russian Chechens Republic of Ichkeria Caucasian insurgents and foreign fighters Commanders Vladimir Putin Akhmad Kadyrov† Ramzan Kadyrov Aslan Maskhadov† Abdul Halim Sadulayev† Doku Umarov Shamil Basayev† Strength At least 93,000 in Chechnya in 1999. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the current President of the Russian Federation. ... is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Politkovskaya made her name reporting from Chechnya for Russia's liberal newspaper, Novaya Gazeta. The BBC described her writing as "often polemical, as bitter in its condemnation of the Russian army and the Russian government as it was fervent in support of human rights and the rule of law."^[2] Her murder, widely perceived as a contract killing, sparked strong international reaction and controversial debate. The Chechen Republic (IPA: ; Russian: , Chechenskaya Respublika; Chechen: , Noxçiyn Respublika), or, informally, Chechnya (; Russian: ; Chechen: , Noxçiyçö), sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn, is a federal subject of Russia. ... Novaya Gazeta (Russian: ) is a Russian newspaper. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... In most countries with judicial systems, a contract to kill a person is unenforceable by law (in the sense that the customer cannot sue for specific performance and the contract killer cannot sue for his pay). ...

Biography

Early life

Politkovskaya was born Anna Mazepa in New York City in 1958 to Soviet Ukrainian parents, both of whom served as diplomats to the United Nations. She grew up in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow State University Department of Journalism in 1980. She defended a thesis about the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva. Politkovskaya was a citizen of both the United States of America and Russian Federation.^[3] New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... History of Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Diplomat redirects here. ... The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский государственный университет имени М.В.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and the oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ... Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: ) (October 9, 1892 – August 31, 1941) was a Russian poet and writer. ...

Journalistic work

Politkovskaya worked for Izvestia from 1982 to 1993, and then as a reporter, editor of emergencies/accidents section, and assistant chief editor of Obshchaya Gazeta led by Yegor Yakovlev (1994–1999). From June 1999 to 2006, she wrote columns for the biweekly Novaya Gazeta, which news vendors often keep under the counter, if at all. She published several award-winning books about Chechnya, life in Russia,^[4] and President Putin's regime,^[5] most recently the book Putin's Russia. Modern Izvestia logo Old Izvestia logo. ... Yegor Yakovlev during a radio interview on station Echo Moskvy Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (March 14, 1930 - September 18, 2005) was one of the founders of Gorbachev and Yeltsin-style glasnost, and one of the most respected Russian journalists. ... Novaya Gazeta (Russian: ) is a Russian newspaper. ... The Chechen Republic (IPA: ; Russian: , Chechenskaya Respublika; Chechen: , Noxçiyn Respublika), or, informally, Chechnya (; Russian: ; Chechen: , Noxçiyçö), sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn, is a federal subject of Russia. ... Putins Russia is a non-fiction book by Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya about life in modern Russia that she calls Putins Russia [1] In the book Politkovskaya tells about transformation of Russia to police state under leadership of Vladimir Putin. ...

Outside Russia, Politkovskaya received wide acclaim for her work in Chechnya,^[6] where she frequently visited hospitals and refugee camps to interview the victims.^[7]. Newspapers in France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the US would open their op-ed sections to her - but in Russia, she had little influence. Her numerous articles critical of the war in Chechnya included allegations of abuses committed under the Russian-backed Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov, as well as his son, deputy prime minister, then prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who won the 2007 presidential election in the republic. She wrote a book, Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy, critical of Putin's federal presidency, specifically his pursuit of the Second Chechen War. Politkovskaya chronicled human rights abuses and policy failures in Chechnya and elsewhere in Russia's North Caucasus, and also wrote books on the subject, including A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya and A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya, which painted a picture of brutal war in which thousands of innocent citizens have been tortured, abducted or killed at the hands of Chechen or federal authorities.^[8] One of her most recent investigations was about alleged mass poisoning of hundreds of Chechen school children by an unknown chemical substance of strong and prolonged action, which made them completely incapable for many months.^[9] Critics accused her of being partisan via her damning reports, which focused on the alleged cruelty of the Russian federal forces. However, her supporters claim that she did not hold back on making similar allegations against the Chechen rebels.^[7] While traveling to Beslan to help in negotiations with the hostage-takers, Politkovskaya fell violently ill and lost consciousness after drinking tea. She had been reportedly poisoned,^[10] with some accusing the former Soviet secret police poison facility ^[11] of involvement in the plot. Akhmat Abdulkhamidovich Kadyrov (Russian: Ахмат Абдулхамидович Кадыров (August 23, 1951 – May 9, 2004) was the president of the Chechen Republic (elected on October 5, 2003). ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the current President of the Russian Federation. ... Combatants Russian Federation Pro-Russian Chechens Republic of Ichkeria Caucasian insurgents and foreign fighters Commanders Vladimir Putin Akhmad Kadyrov† Ramzan Kadyrov Aslan Maskhadov† Abdul Halim Sadulayev† Doku Umarov Shamil Basayev† Strength At least 93,000 in Chechnya in 1999. ... North Caucasus in Russia The North Caucasus (sometimes referred to as Ciscaucasia or Ciscaucasus) is the northern part of the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia. ... Map of North Ossetia Beslan (Russian: ; Ossetic: Беслӕн) is a town located in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia and is the administrative center of Pravoberezhny District. ... The skull and crossbones symbol (Jolly Roger) traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ... // Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services, also known as Laboratory 1, Laboratory 12 and The Chamber, was a covert poison research and development facility of the Soviet secret police agencies. ...

While attending a conference on the freedom of press organized by Reporters Without Borders in Vienna in December 2005 Politkovskaya said: "People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it."^[12] In Moscow she was not invited to press conferences or gatherings that Kremlin officials might attend, in case the organizers were suspected of harboring sympathies toward her. Despite this, many top officials allegedly talked to her when she was writing articles or conducting investigations -- according to her own article, they did talk to her, "but only when they weren't likely be observed: outside in crowds, or in houses that they approached by different routes, like spies".^[13] She often received death threats as a result of her work;^[14] including being threatened with rape and experiencing a mock execution after being arrested by the military in Chechnya.^[15] Reporters Without Borders, or RWB (French: Reporters sans frontières, Spanish: Reporteros Sin Fronteras, or RSF) is a French origin international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press, founded by its current general-secretary, Robert Menard. ... Moscow Kremlin in the 19th century. ... A mock execution is a method of psychological torture, whereby the subject is made to believe that they are being led to their execution. ...

In 2001, Politkovskaya fled to Vienna, following e-mail threats claiming that the OMON police officer whom she had accused of committing atrocities against civilians was looking to take revenge. The officer, Sergei Lapin, was arrested and charged in 2002, but the case against him was closed the following year.^[16][17] In 2005, Lapin was convicted and jailed for torturing and "disappearing" a Chechen civilian detainee, the case exposed by Anna Politkovskaya in the article "Disappearing People".^[18] Politkovskaya had received threats before. She moved to Vienna for a short time in 2001 after receiving e-mail warnings that a Russian police officer, Sergei Lapin, who she had accused of atrocities, was seeking revenge. In 2005, Lapin was found guilty of crimes against Chechen civilians and sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. “Wien” redirects here. ... The OMON insignia OMON (Russian: Отряд милиции особого назначения; Otryad Militsii Osobogo Naznacheniya, Special Purpose Detachment of Militsiya) is a generic name for the system of special units of militsiya (state police) within the Russian and earlier the Soviet, Ministerstvo Vnutrennih Del (MVD; Ministry of Internal Affairs). ... Sergei Lapin (known as Kadet) is a former Russian police officer who had served in Grozny, Chechnya as a member of the special police detachment (OMON) from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in the Russian Federation. ...

In May 2007, Random House published A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia, made up of extracts from her notebook and other writing, in which describes the poisoning on the plane to Rostov-on-Don on the way to Beslan and the worsening political situation in Russia (referred to above). Because the gunman who shot her twice in the head and a third time in the shoulder at point blank range in the elevator to her apartment^[19] - on President Vladimir Putin's birthday - carried out the hit 'while translation was being completed, final editing had to go ahead without her help,' translator Arch Tait writes in a note. "Who killed Anna and who lay beyond her killer remains unknown," writes the UK's Channel 4's main news anchor Jon Snow writes in the foreword to the book's UK edition. "Her murder robbed too many of us of absolutely vital sources of information and contact. Yet it may, ultimately, be seen to have at least helped prepare the way for the unmasking of the dark forces at the heart of Russia's current being. I must confess that I finished reading A Russian Diary feeling that it should be taken up and dropped from the air in vast quantities throughout the length and breadth of Mother Russia, for all her people to read." // Random House is a publishing house based in New York City. ... Map of North Ossetia Beslan (Russian: ; Ossetic: Беслӕн) is a town located in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia and is the administrative center of Pravoberezhny District. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the current President of the Russian Federation. ... Channel 4 is a public-service British television station, broadcast to all areas of the United Kingdom (and also the Republic of Ireland), which began transmissions in 1982. ... Jon Snow is one of the main presenters of Channel 4 News. ...

"People often tell me that I am a pessimist, that I don't believe in the strength of the Russian people, that I am obsessive in my opposition to Putin and see nothing beyond that," she opens an essay titled Am I Afraid?, finishing it - and the book - with the words: "If anybody thinks they can take comfort from the 'optimistic' forecast, let them do so. It is certainly the easier way, but it is the death sentence for our grandchildren."^{[20][21][22][23][24][25]} Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the current President of the Russian Federation. ...

Detention in Chechnya

During a reporting trip in 2001, Politkovskaya was detained by military officials in the Chechen village of Khottuni.^[26] Politkovskaya followed the complaints from 90 Chechen families about "punitive raids" by federal forces. She interviewed a Chechen grandmother Rosita from a village of Tovzeni who endured a 12 day torture of beatings, electric shock and confinement in a pit. The men who arrested Rosita presented themselves as FSB employees. The torturers requested a ransom from Rosita's relatives who negotiated a smaller amount that they were able to pay. Another interviewee described killings and rapes in a camp near the village of Khottuni. In the camp, a senior officer showed Politkovskaya empty pits and assured her that the pits were only used to detain Chechen militants, to cover them from the elements when no other premises were available. Emblem of FSB The FSB (ФСБ) is a state security organization in Russia, and is the domestic successor organization to the KGB. Its name is an acronym from the Russian Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции) (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii). ...

On her leaving the camp, Politkovskaya herself was detained, interrogated and humiliated by the other troops. She was threatened with execution, then treated with a cup of tea that made her vomit. Her tape records were confiscated. During the 2004 Beslan school siege, Politkovskaya was taken ill with suspected food-poisoning. The incident was suspected by some of her colleagues to be a deliberate attempt at poisoning.

In 2004 Colonel-General Alexander Baranov, the commander of the Russian Kavkaz deployment mentioned by Politkovskaya's camp guide as the one who ordered captured militants to be kept in the pits, was found guilty by the European Court of Human Rights,^[27] with regard to unlawful detention, violating the right to life, and the forced disappearance of a Chechen militant suspect Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev he ordered to be executed. European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), often referred to informally as the Strasbourg Court, was created to systematise the hearing of human rights complaints against States Parties to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by... Disappear redirects here. ... General Alexander Baranov (left) ordering a summary execution of Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev (right). ...

Human rights activism

Politkovskaya was sometimes viewed as a human rights activist rather than a journalist. She said about herself that she was not an investigating magistrate but somebody who describes the life of the citizens for those who cannot see it for themselves, because what is shown on television and written about in the overwhelming majority of newspapers is emasculated and doused with ideology. She claimed that the Kremlin tried to block her access to information and discredit her for that reason:^[28] Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ... A magistrate is a judicial officer. ... Moscow Kremlin in the 19th century. ...

"I will not go into the other joys of the path I have chosen, the poisoning, the arrests, the threats in letters and over the Internet, the telephoned death threats, the weekly summons to the prosecutor general's office to sign statements about practically every article I write (the first question being, "How and where did you obtain this information?"). Of course I don't like the constant derisive articles about me that appear in other newspapers and on Internet sites presenting me as the madwoman of Moscow. I find it disgusting to live this way. I would like a bit more understanding."^[29]

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Assassination

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Politkovskaya's death

Politkovskaya was found shot dead on Saturday, 7 October 2006 in the elevator of her apartment block in central Moscow. The funeral was held on Tuesday, 10 October, at 2:30 p.m., at the Troyekurovsky Cemetery. Before Politkovskaya was laid to rest, more than 1,000 people filed past her coffin to pay their last respects. Dozens of Politkovskaya's colleagues, public figures and admirers of her work gathered at a cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow for the funeral. No high-ranking Russian officials could be seen at the ceremony.^[30] There was widespread international reaction, and comparisons made with the murders of other journalists. The assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist, took place on Saturday, 7 October 2006. ... Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A set of lifts in the lower level of a London Underground station. ... is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ongoing investigation

President Putin, breaking the two days' silence, vowed Monday 9 October to track down Politkovskaya's killers.

Prosecutor General Yury Chaika is personally overseeing the investigation. His office said investigators were considering Politkovskaya's professional work as the primary motive for her murder. Billionaire State Duma deputy Alexander Lebedev, who bought 90 percent of Novaya Gazeta in June 2006, has posted a reward of 25 million rubles, just under US$1 million, for information leading to those responsible for Politkovskaya's death, Ekho Moskvy reported. Yury Yakovlevich Chaika is the current Prosecutor General of Russia. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with State Duma. ... Alexander Lebedev (born 16 December 1959) is a Russian billionaire, referred to as one of the Russian tycoons. ... Echo of Moscow (russian:Эхо Москвы - Ekho Moskvy) is the independent Russian radiostation based in Moscow and broadcasted in many other Russian cities and in Internet. ...

On August 27, 2007, 10 people in Russia were arrested for Politkovskaya's killing.^[31]

Her quotes

With regard to the "information blackout" imposed by the Russian government during the Beslan hostage crisis, Politkovskaya wrote: In the military, a communications blackout occurs when a military unit decides not to use radios in an attempt to hide from the enemy. ... The Republic of North Ossetia in Russia The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to by the media as the Beslan school siege) began when armed multinational terrorists took hundreds of schoolchildren and adults hostage on September 1, 2004 at School Number One in the Russian town of Beslan in...

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial - whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit. ^[32]

In the book Putin's Russia, she accused the FSB of stifling all civil liberties to establish Soviet-style dictatorship, but admitted that "it is we who are responsible for Putin's policies": Putins Russia is a non-fiction book by Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya about life in modern Russia that she calls Putins Russia [1] In the book Politkovskaya tells about transformation of Russia to police state under leadership of Vladimir Putin. ... Emblem of FSB The FSB (ФСБ) is a state security organization in Russia, and is the domestic successor organization to the KGB. Its name is an acronym from the Russian Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции) (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii). ...

Society has shown limitless apathy... As the Chekists have become entrenched in power, we have let them see our fear, and thereby have only intensified their urge to treat us like cattle. The KGB respects only the strong. The weak it devours. We of all people ought to know that.

Awards

• 2001: Prize of the Russian Union of Journalists
• 2001: Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism
• 2002: PEN American Center Freedom to Write Award
• 2002: International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award
• 2003: Lettre Ulysses Award
• 2003: Hermann Kesten Medal
• 2004: Olof Palme Prize (shared with Lyudmila Alekseyeva and Sergei Kovalev)
• 2005: Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media
• 2006: International Journalism Award named after Tiziano Terzani
• 2007: UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize (awarded posthumously for the first time)^[33]
• 2007: National Press Club/John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Award (posthumous)

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Her books

• Политковская, Анна (2003) Вторая чеченская (Second Chechen [War])
• Politkovskaya, Anna (2003) A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya
• Politkovskaya, Anna (2003) A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya, translated by Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky, The University of Chicago Press, 2003, ISBN 0-226-67432-0
• Politkovskaya, Anna (2004) Putin's Russia
• Politkovskaya, Anna (2007) A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia

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