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Friday, March 19, 2010 11:42 PM

Anna Politkovskaya

Type: Person

Name: Anna Politkovskaya

Title: Journalist

Organization: Novaya Gazeta and Freelance

Date of Birth: 1958 (killed in Moscow on 7 October 2006)

Place of Birth: New York City

Nationality: Russia

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 Documents

Alexander Lebedev

Independent minded

The Russian billionaire has been cleared by the OFT to buy the struggling paper - but why does he want it?Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev is one step closer to buying the Independent newspaper today after the Office of Fair Trading gave him the green ... [Published 23 hours ago by First Post]

Entities: Alexander Lebedev, Geordie Greig, Ian Hislop, Rod Liddle, Takeover

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Khodorkovsky and the Legal Battlefield

Kim Zigfield (also known as La Russophobe) has a new blog post about Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Nezavisimaya Gazeta article and the Yukos ECHR case as being two fronts of a legal battle against Putinism, published on PajamasMedia : Make no mistake: If the ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Yukos, Stanislav Markelov, Natalya Estemirova, Anna Politkovskaya

First Reported Mar 11 2010 - Updated Mar 11 2010 - 1 Documents

HAMAS

Licence to kill

Which respectable government is going to claim responsibility for a supposedly secret assassination? Public killing between nations is usually on a much grander scale and called 'war'. In the wake of the Dubai assassination of a senior member of Hamas, ... [Published Mar 11 2010 by iafrica.com]

Entities: Assassination, Anna Politkovskaya, Vladimir Putin, HAMAS, KGB

First Reported Feb 19 2010 - Updated Feb 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Rule of Law in Russia

The U.S. can no longer make distinctions between domestic and foreign policy, a lawyer said at a Cato Institute event focusing on the rule of law in Russia.When talking about the rule of law, we need to remember 'a great Russian who lit the light for ... [Published Feb 19 2010 by Accuracy in Media]

Entities: Robert Amsterdam, Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Anna Politkovskaya, Foreign Policy

First Reported Feb 15 2010 - Updated Feb 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Court gives 8 yrs to Khadzhikurbanov earlier acquitted in Politkovskaya case

MOSCOW, February 15 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow?s Tagansky Court on Monday sentenced Sergei Khadzhikurbanov to eights years in prison for extorting 350,000 U.S. dollars. Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who was earlier cleared of assassination charges in the Novaya ... [Published Feb 15 2010 by Itar Tass]

Entities: Anna Politkovskaya, Extortion, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov

First Reported Feb 11 2010 - Updated Feb 12 2010 - 2 Documents

Vladimir Putin

The New York Times: Dead-End Russia

Russia reached a dead-end: the authorities are not able to fulfill their promises and to organize changes in the country that in near future may cause public protests. The New York Times commented on statements by Medvedev and First Deputy Prime Minister ... [Published Feb 12 2010 by Kavkaz-Center]

Entities: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Igor Shuvalov, Corruption

First Reported Jan 28 2010 - Updated Jan 28 2010 - 1 Documents

Russia's Journalism Crisis

Today I received an email from Adam Federman, who just published a very thought provoking article in the Columbia Journalism Review taking a look the evolution of print media in Russia since the fall of communism to the rise of Putinism. I think ... [Published Jan 28 2010 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Stanislav Markelov, Russia, Natalia Morar

First Reported Jan 22 2010 - Updated Jan 22 2010 - 1 Documents

RA's Daily Russian News Blast - Jan 22, 2010

TODAY : Hammarberg counsels Medvedev on human rights; presidential forecast for 2012; Kremlin 'undaunted' by Polish missiles; Dejevsky on Politkovskaya; diplomatic row with Kiev; riot police and bulldozers evict mansion owners; figure skaters in ... [Published Jan 22 2010 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Thomas Hammarberg, Gleb Pavlovsky, Mary Dejevsky, Dmitry Medvedev, Anna Politkovskaya

First Reported Jan 13 2010 - Updated Jan 13 2010 - 1 Documents

Waking up to press slaughter | Jim Boumelha

The media ought to demand action over the killings of journalists across the world – regardless of their nationality or fame It was predictable that the sad death of the Sunday Mirror's defence correspondent Rupert Hamer would make headline news ... [Published Jan 13 2010 by Comment is free | guardian.co.uk]

Entities: Anna Politkovskaya, Homicide, Rupert Hamer, Bob Ainsworth

First Reported Dec 22 2009 - Updated Dec 22 2009 - 1 Documents

2009: Year of Russian Corruption

Vladimir Ryzhkov's column in the Moscow Times points to a very bad year in terms of human rights and corruption in Russia. It's really quite a staggering list. Throughout the year, Medvedev was incapable of managing the country's numerous political ... [Published Dec 22 2009 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Corruption, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Platon Lebedev

First Reported Nov 27 2009 - Updated Nov 27 2009 - 1 Documents

Putin's Al Capone Moment in France

Perhaps expecting some respite from weeks of having his public image battered both in media and in the polls, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived to France this week to do some business for Gazprom (roping in EDF for 10% of South Stream ... [Published Nov 27 2009 by Robert Amsterdam]

Entities: Al Capone, Vladimir Putin, France, Anna Politkovskaya, Mikhail Khodorkovsky

First Reported Nov 19 2009 - Updated Nov 19 2009 - 6 Documents

Politkovskaya expected death: new film

Two years before she was killed in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment, Anna Politkovskaya mused about life as the Kremlin's number one enemy and pronounced it a "miracle" that she was still alive. The journalist, lauded for her fearless reporting ... [Published Nov 19 2009 by France24 - culture]

Entities: Anna Politkovskaya, Moscow, France

More Content

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Former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev adds to his pi... [Times Online - Mar 04 2010]
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James Verini on The Exile [Vanity Fair - Feb 26 2010]
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Authorities Know Killer of Russian Rights Worker [New York Times - Feb 25 2010]
Sri Lanka's Lasantha Wickrematunge named 53rd I... [Ifex - Feb 25 2010]
Climate of fear in Chechnya [Sydney Morning Herald - Feb 22 2010]
Britain angers Kremlin over Chechnya visit [Telegraph - Feb 22 2010]
Rule of Law in Russia [Accuracy in Media - Feb 19 2010]
A Grain In My Empty Bowl [Tehelka - Feb 19 2010]
On Feb. 19, 2008, an ailing Fidel Castro resign... [Chicago Tribune - Feb 19 2010]
Can a Russian Oligarch Save the British Press? [Spiegel Online - Feb 19 2010]
Dead-End Russia [New York Times - Feb 18 2010]
Court gives 8 yrs to Khadzhikurbanov earlier ac... [Itar Tass - Feb 15 2010]
Medvedev versus Putin [Gulf News - Feb 13 2010]
Mother knows best [Moscow News - Feb 13 2010]
Kadyrovâs mother knows best [Moscow News - Feb 13 2010]
The New York Times: Dead-End Russia [Kavkaz-Center - Feb 12 2010]
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What Russia needs most: Civil society engagemen... [Yahoo! News - Feb 10 2010]

Blogs

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Khodorkovsky and the Legal Battlefield [Robert Amsterdam - Mar 15 2010] Kim Zigfield (also known as La Russophobe) has a new blog post about Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Nezavisimaya Gazeta article and the Yukos ECHR case as being two fronts ...
In With the Old [Robert Amsterdam - Feb 11 2010] The New York Times comments today on the Russian government's lip-service to notions of innovation, modernization, its references to stamping out corruption and ...
Russia: CJR Piece on the Media [Global Voices Online - Jan 29 2010] Robert Amsterdam recommends Adam Federman's article on the Russian media, published in Columbia Journalism Review: “… instead of focusing only on the violence against ...
RA's Daily Russian News Blast - Jan 29, 2010 [Robert Amsterdam - Jan 29 2010] TODAY: First meeting of the Russia-US Civil Society Working Group; Khodorkovsky on corruption. Senior police says Politkovskaya killers will be brought to justice; ...
Russia's Journalism Crisis [Robert Amsterdam - Jan 28 2010] Today I received an email from Adam Federman, who just published a very thought provoking article in the Columbia Journalism Review taking a look the evolution of ...

Audio/Video

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Fighting for women's rights in Iran [The Guardian - YouTube - Oct 08 2009]
Sister says remember Politkovskaya [Reuters Video: Top News - Oct 07 2009]