Anna Politkovskaya News
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Gerard Depardieu, the French actor just awarded Russian citizenship, praised his “special relationship” with Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov as he started filming a movie in the mainly Muslim Russian region.
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Boris Berezovsky, a Russian billionaire living in exile in the U.K., is facing fresh accusations of ordering the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Kommersant reported.
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Russia continues its probe into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya in 2006, the Investigative Committee said, expressing “astonishment” at comments by the Interior Ministry that the case is almost solved.
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“Are you totally out of your mind?” Russian newspaper tycoon Alexander Lebedev exclaimed as he jumped to his feet. He stared combatively at property developer Sergei Polonsky, who had taunted Lebedev for ridiculing his claim to be a major charity donor.
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Mikhail Beketov, editor of a newspaper in the Moscow suburb of Khimki who survived a near- fatal beating in 2008, died today at a hospital after choking on food. He was 55.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Mikhail Beketov, a journalist who survived a near-fatal attack in 2008 and died this week, for his bravery and service to society, according to a Kremlin statement.
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Many call him a modern Strindberg. Lars Noren, Sweden’s most prolific playwright, hates being compared to his famous countryman.
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If only belatedly, Lady Justice in Russia has deployed her sword and balanced scales. Authorities in Moscow have detained a lieutenant colonel in the police and are preparing to charge him with organizing the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
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Photographs of three murdered journalists line the glass cabinet at the entrance of Alexander Lebedev ’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper in Moscow, below a shelf with a computer Mikhail Gorbachev once used.
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Russian billionaire newspaper owner Alexander Lebedev, who backs the opposition movement, expects to go to jail as President Vladimir Putin cracks down on the biggest protests against his rule.
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