Activists restored a memorial plaque on Politkovskaya's house.

Another memorial plaque has been installed to replace the one destroyed on the building where Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on January 18, a memorial plaque, which had hung for almost 20 years on the wall of the building on Lesnaya Street in Moscow where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was shot, was smashed for the first time. Most of the temporary plaques installed by activists after that lasted less than 24 hours. By February 26, 24 plaques had been destroyed, including 23 temporary ones. By the evening of February 28, another temporary plaque, which had been up for less than a day, disappeared.

The plaque has already been restored more than two dozen times after being destroyed by unknown individuals, SotaVision* reported today.

Activists plan to continue hanging the plaque until it permanently remains on the building where Anna Politkovskaya died, the publication states.

As can be seen from the video attached to the publication, the plaque mimics the text on the original plaque. It is located beneath a stenciled inscription; the inscription in the plaque's original location has become illegible.

As a reminder, Anna Politkovskaya, known for her articles on the war and human rights violations in Chechnya, was killed in Moscow on October 7, 2006. The court found that Lom-Ali Gaitukayev had organized the murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Rustam Makhmudov has been identified as the direct perpetrator, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya".

Anna Politkovskaya gave her last interview 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.

"Caucasian Knot" publishes materials dedicated to Politkovskaya on the thematic page "Politkovskaya and Estemirova", which also contains materials about Anna's friend, the journalist and human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, who was killed in 2009 and also worked on issues affecting Chechen residents.

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