Anna Politkovskaya

Medvedev's warm tribute to Estemirova -- found dead Wednesday in the volatile Northern Caucasus -- contrasted with the grudging description of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya by his predecessor Vladimir Putin in 2006. "She did...

In this article: Natalya Estemirova, Dmitry Medvedev, Ramzan Kadyrov, Memorial, Moscow, and Vladimir Putin

...people. </p><p>Many held photographs of Politkovskaya - who also wrote books critical of the Kremlin and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin - and bouquets of roses, which they later placed outside her apartment building in central Moscow. Dozens...

In this article: Moscow, Mikhail Kasyanov, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, Novaya Gazeta, and Hillary Rodham Clinton

...take advantage of this ruling," he told The Associated Press. During her career, Politkovskaya sharply criticized Putin's Kremlin and the Kremlin-backed government of Chechnya. The southern Russian area was the site of two post-Soviet...

In this article: Supreme Court, Vladimir Putin, Chechnya, Moscow, and Russia

In an interview with The Times, published today, he criticised Mr Putin over Russia's failure to convict the killers of prominent Kremlin critics such as the journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the dissident spy Alexander Litvinenko. Mr...

In this article: Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Barack Obama, Democracy, Triumphalism, Alexander Litvinenko, and Baroness Thatcher

...army's second bloody entry into Grozny in late 1999. Putin dismissed Politkovskaya three days after her murder as "insignificant", adding that she was "well known only in the west". Later, however, he described her as a "rather sharp...

In this article: Vladimir Putin, Russia, Defendant, Ramzan Kadyrov, Natalia Estemirova, Chechnya, Karinna Moskalenko, and Moscow

In an interview with The Times last month, Mr Gorbachev condemned the Kremlin for failing to fight corruption and solve the murders of prominent critics such as the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who wrote for Novaya Gazeta. He...

In this article: Mikhail Gorbachev, United Russia, Democracy, Vladimir Putin, Russia, and Novaya Gazeta

...investigative team will take advantage of this ruling," he told The Associated Press. During her career, Politkovskaya sharply criticized Putin's Kremlin and the Kremlin-backed government of Chechnya, the site of two post-Soviet separatist...

In this article: Supreme Court, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Chechnya, and Moscow