Politkovskaya
Three Years–No Killer, No Justice
By Sean at 7 October, 2009, 10:27 am
Three years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in the vestibule of her apartment building as she returned from grocery shopping. She was murdered for her long standing and acclaimed reporting on Chechnya. Three years and no killer has been found. Nor has anyone tied to the crime been convicted. There is not much to say [...]
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 [...]
Read More >>Politkovskaya Defendents Go Back to Court
By Sean at 25 June, 2009, 8:33 am
It’s back to court for Pavel Ryaguzov, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov. Today, the Russian Supreme Court overturned their acquittal in the Anna Politkovskaya murder case. Reports the NY Times:
The court said the four men, who were accused of assisting the killer of Ms. Politkovskaya, should be tried on the same charges [...]
Politkovskaya Juror Denies Barring Media
By Sean at 20 November, 2008, 9:42 am
Evgenii Kolesov, one of the jurors in the Politkovskaya murder trial, was on Ekho Moskvy today and said the following about the sudden closing of the trial to the media:
“I can’t say that the initiative originated from us. In no way did any of us demand this,” the juror emphasized. According to him, the court [...]
The Open Trial that Wasn’t
By Sean at 19 November, 2008, 10:11 am
On Tuesday, it looked as if the Anna Politkovskaya trial would be open to journalists. Today, the judge Yevgeny Zubov, decided at the last moment that it would be closed. The reason he gave was that the jury refused to participate if the trial was open to the media. Zubkov had already warned that he [...]
Read More >>Moskalenko’s Mercury Mirage
By Sean at 23 October, 2008, 8:17 am
When I blogged on the “poisoning” of Karinna Moskalenko last week, I asked, “Was this a murder attempt, a warning, or just paranoia?” Well now we definitively know: It was paranoia. The French newspaper La Figaro reports that an investigation into the mercury that made Moskalenko ill was not planted there by a nefarious Putinite [...]
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