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Russians Need To Respect Themselves
Teemu Matinpuro, executive director of the Finnish Peace Committee, and Kerkko Paananen, information secretary of the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum (FINROSFORUM), gave an interview to Lyudmila Mamina, editor-in-chief of Kasparov.Ru, about the Finnish edition of Novaya Gazeta, the attitude of Finnish society to Anna Politkovskaya, the war in Chechnya, and the current political situation in Russia. Below, an edited translation of the interview.
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Impunity and attacks silence Russian journalists
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The photograph of a bespectacled, grey-haired woman, her head resting in her hands has become iconic to human rights campaigners worldwide. A symbol of the risks campaigning journalists in Russia face. Five years ago, Anna Politkovskaya – an investigative journalist who wrote highly critical reports of Russian military actions in Chechnya and of the Kremlin – was gunned down in the lift of her Moscow apartment block. The killing drew worldwide attention to violence against journalists in Russia and raised widespread suspicions that public officials were responsible for ordering the murder.
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Five years ago, Anna Politkovskaya – an investigative journalist who wrote highly critical reports of Russian military actions in Chechnya and of the Kremlin – was gunned down in the lift of her Moscow apartment block.
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Russian rights veteran doubts Politkovskaya murder mastermind will be found
Interfax
The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, doubts that the real commissioner of the murder of Novaya Gazeta [newspaper] observer Anna Politkovskaya will be established.
“There are some very positive assessments of investigators’ actions coming from Novaya Gazeta and Politkovskaya’s son, Ilya. They are happy about something. But I have serious doubts that the real commissioner [of the murder] will be ascertained,” Alekseyeva told the Interfax news agency on Thursday [6 October].
She said that “one of the links in power-wielding structures” may be involved in the murder.
“Their principle is not to give up their own. Working closely on the case of Sergey Magnitskiy [Hermitage Capital lawyer, who died in pre-trial detention], I have come to see how solidly this logic works, how they resist absolutely obvious things. They do not give up their own,” Alekseyeva said.
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State Department Takes Action Against Chechen Leader
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After the U.S. instituted a travel ban against the Russian officials involved in the death of Sergei Magnitsky, Russia responded with its own visa “blacklist” of American officials unwelcome in the Russian Federation. But the State Department seems to have one-upped the Russians again.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin’s brutal surrogate in the North Caucasus, has now been given the diplomatic cold shoulder:
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