| THE ASSASSINATION OF ANNA. CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT (75 min) Russia |
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Description:
On October 7th, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had been writing on war crime in Chechnya for many years, was murdered in front of her home in Moscow. Vladimir Putin denounced the murder but noted that Politkovskaya had shown a “radical stance” in her critique of the government and that “her murder did more harm to the authorities than her publications.” It’s been 15 years since the murder, and according to the Russian law, the crime has fallen outside of the statute of limitations. But what was the role of the Russian special services in Politkovskaya’s death? And why did the authorities aggressively follow a false trail in the search for the culprit? This is a story about a human tragedy but also about the courage of Novaya Gazeta’s journalists, who still remain faithful to their colleague and friend fifteen years after her death.
Biographies:
Anna Artemeva is a journalist who has written for Ogonek, Novaya Gazeta, Sobesednik, The Wall Street Journal, ART, and other periodicals. From 2009 to 2020, Anna worked full-time for Novaya Gazeta as a photojournalist and director of the newspaper’s multimedia studio, covering topics such as civil protests in Moscow, mass closure of rural schools, the lack of gasification and sanitation in some areas of Russia, strikes of Krasnodarian farmers and Rostov mine workers, military conflict in Donbas, the life on the borderline Kuril Islands, the position of the working migrants in Moscow, crimes against LGBTQ+ people in Chechnya, and many more. Anna is the author and producer of numerous documentary films.
Dmitry Muratov is a Russian journalist, television presenter and the editor-in-chief of the Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper known for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Maria Ressa for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”
Pavel Kanygin is a correspondent for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, where he has worked since 2005. He has covered the Russian-Georgian and Russian-Moldovan conflicts and published a series of reports on the Fukushima nuclear power station disaster. Kanygin has also reported on the Ukrainian crisis since it began. He previously worked at Moskovsky Komsomolets and Moscow News. He won the Andrei Sakharov Prize for journalism and has twice received the Redkollegia Award for Journalism Excellence, which recognizes independent journalism in Russia.
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