The Life and Death of Anna Politkovskaya

Oct 07, 2016 - 01:00 pm

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya during her trip to Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, November 1998. One of the central parks in Karlovy Vary has been named in honor of Politkovskaya. Valery Moiseyev / TASS

Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was detained in Chechnya because she didn't have the proper documents, visits the village of Khatuni with Russian paratroopers. The office of presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky told Itar-Tass that "Politkovskaya will be sent to Mozdok (North Ossetia) by helicopter", February 2001. Novaya Gazeta / TASS

Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya (C) and her colleagues from Belarus and Ukraine being presented with Gerd Bucerius Award entitled 'Die Junge Presse in Ost-Europa' [Young Press in Eastern Europe] by the foundation 'ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius', in Hamburg, Germany, June 3, 2002. Igor Zarembo / TASS

Anna Politkovskaya pictured at the Novaya Gazeta editorial office. Politkovskaya arrived to Moscow from the USA on Oct. 25 to take part in negotiations with terrorists, holding people hostage at the Dubrovka Theatrical Center, Oct.28, 2012. Fyodor Savintsev / TASS

Anna Politkovskaya leaves the Dubrovka Theatrical Center after negotiations with Chechen terrorists in Moscow, Oct. 25, 2002. Politkovskaya, who was admired in Chechnya for her bold criticism of the war and despised by the Kremlin for her independent reporting, worked to mediate the hostage crisis in Nord-Ost. Ivan Sekretarev / AP

Anna Politkovskaya appears outside the waiting room of the presidential administration where a protest action "Under Siege-2: Empty Space" was held. The action was staged by parents of National Bolshevik Party activists arrested on Dec. 14, 2004 for symbolical "seizure" of the waiting room of the presidential administration, Apr.19, 2005. Yuri Mashkov / TASS

A guard steps over flower tributes laid by people as he leaves an apartment building where killed journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived, Oct.7, 2006. Grigory Sysoyev / TASS

A workplace of Anna Politkovskaya at the Novaya Gazeta editorial office the next day after she was killed, Oct.8, 2006. Grigory Tambulov / TASS

Flowers are seen in front of apartment building where killed Anna Politkovskaya lived, Oct.8, 2006. Vladimir Filonov / MT

Friday, Oct. 7 marks a decade since the death of iconic Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who built her reputation reporting on conflict in Chechnya for Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. An outspoken critic of the Kremlin and a human rights activist, Politkovskaya was murdered in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in 2006. Five men were sentenced for her murder in 2014, but the person who ordered the hit has never been brought to justice.

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