What the records say
- When
- 7 Oct 2006
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 55.78° N, 37.59° E
- Description
- assassination of a Russian journalist
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya
2006 murder in Moscow, Russia
On 7 October 2006, Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment block in central Moscow. She was known for her opposition to the Second Chechen War and criticism of Russian president Vladimir Putin. The recipient of several international awards for her work, she authored Putin's Russia as well as several books about the Chechen conflict.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Москве в подъезде своего дома убита обозреватель «Новой газеты», журналист Анна Политковская”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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