“They reminded me that Kadyrov publicly vowed to murder me. He actually said during a meeting of his government that Politkovskaya was a condemned woman.”
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Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian investigative journalist who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005). She was found murdered in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow on 7 October 2006.
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culture · Russian journalist (1958–2006) · journalist · human rights defender · writer · peace activist · poet · activist · also Anna Politkovskaya, Anna Mazepa, Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya, Politkovskaya
Born 30 August 1958 · Died 7 October 2006 · Q131240
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2026· 2 entries
The New York Times: Anna Politkovskaya
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Maxine Peake on Playing Murdered Russian Reporter Anna Politkovskaya in ‘Words of War’ and the Film’s ‘Horrific’ Relevance: ‘2024 Was the Most Dangerous Year to Be ...
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Deadline.com: “The Truth Is The Only Thing That Matters”: Watch The First Trailer For Political Thriller ‘Words Of War’ About Anna Politkovskaya; Sean Penn Exec Produces
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2024· 1 entry
Deadline.com: Anna Politkovskaya Movie ‘Words Of War’, Starring Maxine Peake, Ciaran Hinds & Jason Isaacs, Gets U.S. Deal Out Of TIFF Market; Sean Penn Aboard As Exec Producer
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2022· 1 entry
With Maxine Peake playing Politkovskaya and also featuring Jason Isaacs and Ciaran Hinds
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2021· 1 entry
The Nation: The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya Is Still Not Solved
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2014· 2 entries
Five men were sentenced to prison for the murder, but it is still unclear who ordered or paid for the contract killing
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Wrote Sokolov, the once large team of investigators was reduced to one person and within a year he retired, to be replaced by a lower-ranking investigator
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2011· 2 entries
Russian director Marina Goldovskaya made the documentary A Bitter Taste of Freedom, a Swedish-Russian-American co-production
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It was a brief internship in the mailroom and her only journalistic engagement during the 1980s as he failed to assist her career
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2008· 1 entry
Swiss director Eric Bergkraut made a documentary, Letter to Anna, about Politkovskaya's life and death
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2007· 4 entries
Awarded UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize (2007).
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Awarded Daniel Pearl Award (2007).
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Awarded Premis Internacionals Terenci Moix (2007).
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Awarded Geschwister-Scholl-Preis (2007).
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2006· 7 entries
Died 2006-10-07.
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Awarded International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes (2006).
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The annual Anna Politkovskaya Award in Politkovskaya's honour
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In London, after working as a journalist and human rights advocate in the war zones of Bosnia, Kosovo and the North Caucasus, including 10 years as the Russia Researcher for Amnesty International
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“My heroes are those people who want to be individuals but are being forced to be cogs again. In an Empire there are only cogs.”
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“We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial - whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.”
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The European Court of Human Rights found the Russian Federation responsible for the forced disappearance of a suspected Ingush militant, Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Preis für die Freiheit und Zukunft der Medien (2005).
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Awarded Civil Courage Prize (2005).
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Lapin was convicted and jailed for the torture and subsequent disappearance of a Chechen civilian detainee, the case exposed by Politkovskaya in her article "Disappearing People"
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2004· 5 entries
Awarded Olof Palme Prize (2004).
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Awarded Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Award for Cultural and Political Journalism (2004).
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Awarded Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Awards (2004).
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Published Putin's Russia, a personal account of Russia for a Western readership
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Politkovskaya had a conversation with Ramzan Kadyrov, then Prime Minister of Chechnya
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Lettre Ulysses Award (2003).
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Awarded Hermann Kesten Prize (2003).
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Courage in Journalism Award (2002).
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Awarded Andrei Sakharov Prize "For Journalism as a Deed" (2002).
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But the case against him was closed the following year
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded Artyom Borovik award (2001).
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Politkovskaya was detained by military officials in the southern mountain village of Khattuni
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Politkovskaya fled to Vienna, following e-mail threats that a police officer whom she had accused of atrocities against civilians in Chechnya was looking to take revenge
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2000· 1 entry
Won Golden Pen of Russia (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Not only wrote about the plight of an ethnically-mixed old peoples' home under bombardment in Grozny, but helped to secure the safe evacuation of its elderly inhabitants with the aid of her newspaper and public suppo
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1991· 1 entry
Experienced threats against their family, which forced her teenage son's exile in London in 1992
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1990· 1 entry
Before it turned into a tabloid serving fake news in September 1994
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1980· 2 entries
With a thesis about the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva
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Studied at MSU Faculty of Journalism (1980).
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1962· 2 entries
And Politkovskaya mostly grew up there
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And served as its secretary as late as 1974
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1958· 2 entries
Born 1958-08-30.
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The daughter of Ukrainian Soviet diplomats at the United Nations, Stepan Fedorovich Mazepa (1927–2006) from Kostobobriv, and Raisa Aleksandrovna (née Novikova; 1929–2021) from Kerch in Crimea
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