7 October last marked the second anniversary of the death of Anna Politkovskaya.
The New York Review of Books has a timely article about a new film "Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Politkovskaya’s Death":
"As Eric Bergkraut's moving and forceful film, Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Politkovskaya's Death, makes clear, Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the Kremlin and its policy toward Chechnya, had long been aware that her life was in danger. Bergkraut, a prominent Swiss filmmaker, had interviewed Politkovskaya numerous times while working on Coca: The Dove from Chechnya, his 2005 documentary about the conflict in Chechnya. Letter to Anna uses footage from those interviews to great effect. When she first appears in the film, Anna stares into the camera and says: "Why am I still alive? If I speak seriously about this I would understand it as a miracle. It really is a miracle."
Read the complete piece here. Meanwhile, the IHT reported this this past week:
"A Russian human rights lawyer whose clients have included leading Kremlin opponents said Tuesday that she had found poisonous mercury in her car in France and believed it may have been a warning to her.
Karinna Moskalenko told Ekho Moskvy, a radio station in Moscow, that the incident had prevented her from travelling to Moscow to take part in the trial of three suspected accomplices in the 2006 murder of the journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya.
"People do not put mercury in your car to improve your health," Moskalenko, who spends much of her time in the French city of Strasbourg, told the radio station. "I am very concerned because there were children in that car."
The New York Review of Books has a timely article about a new film "Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Politkovskaya’s Death":
"As Eric Bergkraut's moving and forceful film, Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Politkovskaya's Death, makes clear, Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the Kremlin and its policy toward Chechnya, had long been aware that her life was in danger. Bergkraut, a prominent Swiss filmmaker, had interviewed Politkovskaya numerous times while working on Coca: The Dove from Chechnya, his 2005 documentary about the conflict in Chechnya. Letter to Anna uses footage from those interviews to great effect. When she first appears in the film, Anna stares into the camera and says: "Why am I still alive? If I speak seriously about this I would understand it as a miracle. It really is a miracle."
Read the complete piece here. Meanwhile, the IHT reported this this past week:
"A Russian human rights lawyer whose clients have included leading Kremlin opponents said Tuesday that she had found poisonous mercury in her car in France and believed it may have been a warning to her.
Karinna Moskalenko told Ekho Moskvy, a radio station in Moscow, that the incident had prevented her from travelling to Moscow to take part in the trial of three suspected accomplices in the 2006 murder of the journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya.
"People do not put mercury in your car to improve your health," Moskalenko, who spends much of her time in the French city of Strasbourg, told the radio station. "I am very concerned because there were children in that car."
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