A new temporary plaque has been installed on Anna Politkovskaya's home.
Activists have installed the 12th homemade memorial plaque on the facade of the Moscow building where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, late in the evening of February 11, activists for the eleventh time installed a plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's Moscow building, reminding them of the deliberate destruction of the murdered journalist's memorial plaque: "Here in 2026, neo-Nazis destroyed Anna Politkovskaya's memorial plaque." By the morning of February 12, it had been torn down.
On January 27, representatives of the Yabloko party restored the memorial plaque for the eighth time. All previous plaques installed in January were torn down within a day of installation, and one resident of the building reported the intentional destruction of the temporary plaques. The plaque installed by Yabloko lasted for a week and a half, but was also destroyed on February 6. Afterward, the original text from the broken plaque, "Anna Politkovskaya lived in this building and was vilely murdered on October 7, 2006," was stenciled onto the facade in place of the plaque that had been destroyed on January 18 and had stood there for almost 20 years.
The twelfth homemade memorial plaque was installed at the address where Anna Politkovskaya was killed late in the evening of February 12. The text on this plaque reproduces the inscription on the original memorial plaque.
“The previous plaque lasted less than a day. Activists continue to restore the plaque as it was destroyed by an unknown assailant,” SOTAvision* reports.
The new plaque was installed on the wall beneath the stenciled inscription and duplicates its text, according to video footage.
On January 18, a memorial plaque bearing the name of Anna Politkovskaya was destroyed for the first time in a building on Lesnaya Street. Activists from the Civil Initiative replaced the destroyed plaque with a temporary one, but it was also destroyed on January 19. Representatives of a far-right organization designated as terrorist claimed involvement in the destruction of the first plaque. The man who smashed a memorial plaque was fined 1,000 rubles, although he denied any wrongdoing, claiming the plaque "fell and broke on its own."
Anna Politkovskaya, known for her articles on the war and human rights violations in Chechnya, was murdered in Moscow on October 7, 2006. The court found that Lom-Ali Gaitukayev had orchestrated the murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Rustam Makhmudov has been identified as the perpetrator, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya".
Last Interview Anna Politkovskaya gave to a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent an hour and a half before her death. In this interview, the journalist commented on Ramzan Kadyrov's career prospects.
In 2025, on the 19th anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya's murder, residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg brought flowers to her grave, the Novaya Gazeta office, and the memorial to the victims of repression. Some of those convicted in the case of her murder have already been released, but the person who ordered it has not yet been convicted, Politkovskaya's colleagues recalled.
On the fifth anniversary of Politkovskaya's murder, journalists and human rights activists at a rally in Tbilisi highlighted her contribution to the fight for freedom of speech, demanding that those who ordered her murder be identified.
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