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Russia: Politkovskaya murder suspects caught

Posted by Alisa Zykova on June 18, 2008 at 10:08 AM
According to an article from Agence France Presse (AFP), Russian authorities have caught three suspects charged with the murder of "journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya", who was shot in 2006.

Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov have been charged with the murder. The main suspect, Rustam Makhmudov, "remains at large" said a spokesperson for the investigations committee.

"Former secret service officer, Pavel Ryaguzov, has been charged with abuse of power and extortion" linked to the inquiry.

Charges were "dropped against former Chechen local government official, Shamil Burayev".

See also:

Anniversary of Politskovskaya urder, Russia still lags

Russia: Kremlin adviser resigns over reporter's murder

Russia: Murdered Journalist's last article published


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Russia: Anna Politkovskaya killer identified but not caught?

Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on March 28, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Russian investigators have said they have identified - but not caught - the killer of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, whose murder in October 2006 became a symbol of Russian repression against journalists critical of the government.

"The person who directly carried out the crime, the killing of Politkovskaya, has been identified. All measures are being taken to find and detain the person in question," said Vyacheslav Smirnov, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office, according to Interfax news agency.

However, in October 2007, the investigator of the case had already mentioned that the presumed killer had been identified.

This news comes in the wake of two TV journalists being murdered in Russia, supposedly in relation to the work they were doing.

Russia and the Kremlin have regularly been criticized for muzzling the free press, as was the case during the last parliamentary elections.

Source: AFP Mail

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Russia: covering the elections without the reporting

Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on November 22, 2007 at 12:23 PM
This might come as a real shocker to editors used to free and investigative reporting about politics: Russian journalists who want to report about the upcoming parliamentary elections on Dec. 2 will have to do so without throwing either negative or positive light on the candidates, whatever that means – by law.


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Anniversary of Politkovskaya murder, Russia still lags

Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on October 8, 2007 at 2:48 PM
The World Association of Newspapers has renewed its call to Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure that a thorough and impartial investigation is made into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed a year ago yesterday.


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Russia: Kremlin adviser resigns over reporter's murder

Posted by Bertrand Pecquerie on October 18, 2006 at 12:27 PM

According to Reuters, Oleg Orlov, a leading human rights campaigner and head of the rights group Memorial, yesterday resigned as a Kremlin adviser saying he disagreed with Vladimir Putin's opinions about the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The Russian president had called the contract-style killing of the outspoken journalist a "disgusting crime" but added that the murder had done more harm to Russia than her reporting ever had - a statement implying, said Politkovskaya's backers, that she had been harming the country by uncovering official corruption, especially in Chechnya.

 Source: Reuters through Media Guardian

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World's Press Condemns Murder of Russian Journalist

Posted by Bertrand Pecquerie on October 8, 2006 at 11:07 AM
The World Association of Newspapers today condemned the 'shocking murder' of Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist. Ms Politkovskaya, a reporter for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was found dead Saturday afternoon from a bullet wound in the elevator of the building where she lived in Moscow.


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