Anna Politkovskaya is being remembered today in different regions of Russia. She was killed 20 years ago

Today, in different regions of Russia, people are remembering Anna Politkovskaya. She was killed 20 years ago

In Moscow, Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov put up a new temporary plaque on the building where the journalist lived and was killed. People were able to lay flowers there.

At the same time, residents of the building called the police, the Telegram channel “Slovo zashchite” reports. According to RusNews, a police van drove up to the building; officers stopped people carrying flowers, but released them almost immediately.

🔹In St. Petersburg, members of Yabloko laid flowers at the Solovetsky Stone, a monument to victims of political repression on Troitskaya Square, in memory of the murdered journalist.

🔹In Irkutsk, on the 20th anniversary of Politkovskaya’s murder, concerned activist Vladislav laid flowers near Trud Stadium, RusNews writes. When Vladislav returned to the site of the spontaneous memorial, it turned out that some other concerned citizens had also laid flowers.

🔹In Omsk, a spontaneous memorial to Anna Politkovskaya appeared near the memorial to victims of political repression: a portrait of Anna was put up there and flowers were laid.

🔹Novaya Gazeta has issued a commemorative postage stamp for Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya’s photo is done in the style used for portraits of Nobel laureates. The editorial office is convinced that if the journalist had not been killed, she would have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

More details are on Dozhd’s website.

Photo: St. Petersburg Yabloko, RusNews, SOTAvision, Novaya Gazeta / Telegram

🔵Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed in the entrance of her own apartment building on October 7, 2006, on Vladimir Putin’s birthday and shortly after Ramzan Kadyrov’s birthday. In 2014, the perpetrators — Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, and the Makhmudov brothers — received prison sentences. Investigators never found the person who ordered the murder.

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