Sean Guillory of Sean's Russia Blog links to the New York Times’ translation [1] of an interview with Petros Garibian, the chief investigator in the Anna Politkovskaya murder case, and receives over 50 comments to his post on commemorating the slain journalist [2]. Mark MacKinnon writes [3] about Russia's “Day of Shame.” La Russophobe devotes Oct. 7 to collecting tributes and other material on Politkovskaya [4]. Grigory Pasko writes [5] on Robert Amsterdam's blog: “The seventh of October will never again be Putin’s birthday – it will be the day Anna died.”
Russia: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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