The headline of Russian Newspaper, Novaya Gazeta reflected a defiant tone. The paper proclaims, 'We Are Not Afraid'. "The killers have no fear because they know they will not be punished. But neither...
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"MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - Despite heavy rain hundreds of people gathered in Moscow on Tuesday to commemorate investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya gunned down near her home in the Russian capital in 2006. A model of a planned monument to the journalist has...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has been facing a round of difficult questions from journalists on topics ranging from the murdered ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko and journalist Anna Politkovskaya to policies on US anti-missile bases in Eastern Europe: "The murdered...
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"As Viktor Yushchenko of the Ukraine learned it is poisionious to be on Putins bad side. A former agent in the Russian successor to the KGB who was apparently poisoned by a toxic chemical while dining with a contact in London is in a "serious but stable" condition,...
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"Scotland Yard is investigating the attempted murder of a top Russian defector poisoned by political enemies in London.
Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB colonel who fled the current Russian regime to claim asylum...
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This may be a story about one woman, but it certainly can be seen (photographs and articles, just hearing people speak on the streets) by all as somehting that has been taken, ripped from the world wide...
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At NowPublic we are getting an incredible outpouring of imagery from places in Moscow where vigils are being kept for this fearless journalist.
Click on the links below to see this story unfold:It started...
"One of President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics would not be penning any more stinging critiques of a man she scathingly referred to as "a product of the country's murkiest intelligence service".
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"The murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has prompted her newspaper to offer an award of close to $1 million for information about her killers. Her death has raised uncomfortable questions about...
"To many of us Anna Politkovskaya will remain the epitome of what a journalist should be.
She represented the best traditions of the Russian intelligentsia - highly cultured, courageous and fiercely honest."
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