Political Murder
Markelov and Baburova’s Murders One Year Past
By Sean at 19 January, 2010, 9:07 am
One year ago, an assassin in a ski masked shot anti-fascist lawyer Stanislav Markelov in the back in the head near Kropotkinskaya metro. The killer then shot Novaya gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova as she went after him. She died in a hospital shortly thereafter. Both were well known antifascists. The memory of these two figures, however, not only reminds us of the plight of human rights activists and journalists in Russia, but also the specter of Russian fascist violence.
Read More >>Two More Chechen Human Rights Activists Kidnapped
By Sean at 10 August, 2009, 6:05 pm
Two more human rights workers have been kidnapped in Grozny, the Russian media is reporting. According to Ingushetia.ru, Zarema Sadulaeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov were taken by unknown gunmen from the office of “Save the Generation,” a non-governmental youth organization that provides medical and psychological help for youth and children traumatized by violence in [...]
Read More >>Responses to Estemirova’s Murder
By Sean at 20 July, 2009, 8:32 am
A quick rundown of Western media responses to Natalia Estemirova’s murder from Newsy.com.
Read More >>Who will answer for Natalia Estemirova?
By Sean at 17 July, 2009, 10:43 pm
My translation of Novaya gazeta calling Putin out.
Ramzan Kadyrov and the unnamed “officials of Chechnya”? They are all one in the same. We remember the names of those who questioned. It’s unknown whether “Kadyrov’s list” was written on down. About which are many rumors. But it has been obvious for a while that there are [...]
Read More >>Pointing the Finger at Kadyrov
By Sean at 17 July, 2009, 8:51 am
The world is reacting to the murder of Memorial activist Natalia Estemirova. Already a universal consensus has formed as to who is responsible: Ramzan Kadyrov. Everyone seems to be taking their cue from Oleg Orlov, the chairman of Memorial. “I know, I am sure of it, who is guilty for the murder of Natalia. His [...]
Read More >>Another Casualty of the “Russian Abu Ghraib”
By Sean at 15 July, 2009, 1:12 pm
The Nation’s Katriana Vanden Heuvel (and wife of Russia scholar Stephen Cohen) has addressed the murder of Natalya Estermirova. According to preliminary reports, Estermirova was abducted and stuffed in a van. Her corpse was later found murdered near a woodland area near Nazran in Ingushetia. Estermirova had a direct connection to the Nation. She wrote [...]
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