The death of human rights worker Natalya Estemirova was widely reported last week as the latest in a string of unsolved murders of members of the small circle of journalists and activists working to expose the extreme brutality of...
Posted in The Chicago Blog on July 20, 2009 11:02 AM
After being arrested in October of 2006 for the murder of acclaimed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, three men—two Chechen brothers and a former police investigator—were found not guilty by a jury on charges that they provided logistical support for...
Posted in The Chicago Blog on June 26, 2009 01:57 PM
Several news agencies are reporting this morning on a Russian court's acquittal of three men who had been accused of participating in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, the renowned investigative journalist who reported on the brutal tactics used by...
Posted in The Chicago Blog on February 19, 2009 12:49 PM
The New York Times reported today that French police discovered toxic mercury pellets in the car of human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko, one day before pretrial hearings in Moscow into the murder of one of her best-known clients, journalist and...
Posted in The Chicago Blog on October 15, 2008 01:30 PM
Ten suspects have been arrested for the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya last October. The ten include "five police and Federal Security Service officers and three Chechen brothers," according to the Moscow Times which went on to state that Prosecutor...
Posted in The Chicago Blog on August 28, 2007 12:13 PM
Anna Politkovskaya was buried yesterday; thousands attended her funeral service at Troyekurov cemetery in Moscow, a cemetery described by Viktor Erofeyev in the International Herald Tribune as "a sort of branch of the famous Novodevichy cemetery where the big bosses...
Posted in The Chicago Blog on October 11, 2006 10:37 PM
Anna Politkovskaya was found shot dead in her Moscow apartment on Saturday. Politkovskaya was a journalist and longtime critic of the the Russian government, particularly with regard to its policies in Chechnya. She was a special correspondent for the liberal...
Posted in The Chicago Blog on October 8, 2006 10:24 PM