Award for fighting in Ukraine

President Putin pardoned former Russian investigator Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, convicted of the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, for fighting in Ukraine. This news was confirmed to AFP by his lawyer. “As a special forces fighter, he was invited to sign a contract to participate in a special military operation. “When the contract expired, he was pardoned by presidential decree,” his lawyer Alexei Mikhalchik said.

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Who was Anna Politkovskaya?

Anna Politkovskaya is particularly active on the human rights front, and is mainly known for her reporting on the Second Chechen War and for her harsh criticism against the Russian armed forces and the governments under Vladimir Putin, who is accused of failing to respect civil rights and govern the country. Law. On October 7, 2006, she was killed in Moscow while returning home. His killing led to a large international mobilization to clarify the circumstances of his killing. In June 2014, five ethnic Chechen men were sentenced to prison for murder although the instigators were not identified.

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the killer

Politkovskaya was found dead in the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow on October 7, 2006. Police found a Makarov pistol with four shell casings next to the body. One of the bullets hit her in the head. Then the trace of the premeditated murder carried out by a contract killer was traced. Although the identity of those responsible has not been identified, many have pointed the finger at President Putin. The date of the assassination coincides, among other things, with the birthday of the Russian president.

The next day, Russian police confiscated Politkovskaya’s computer and all materials related to the journalist’s investigation. On October 9, Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, said that Politkovskaya was about to publish, on the same day she was killed, a long article about torture committed by Chechen security forces linked to Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov. Muratov added that two photos are also missing; The notes, which had not yet been confiscated, were published in the newspaper on October 9.

The funeral was held on October 10 at the Troekurovsky Cemetery in Moscow. The funeral ceremony was attended by more than a thousand people, including colleagues and simple admirers of the journalist. His tombstone represents a bullet-riddled newspaper, a sign of his great commitment to discovering the truth. Among those who attended the funeral was also the radical political leader Marco Panella, a personal friend of Politkovskaya. No representative of the Russian government attended.

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