Thursday 28 January 2016
People who voiced their protests and met a terrible fate.
Animated and directed by Bennie Melwin. Music by Freddie Baites.
A reporter for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Politkovskaya was gunned down in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment building on 7 October 2006. She was famous for her hard-hitting coverage of the Caucasus and her criticism of the Kremlin, and her murder has become a symbol of the threats to freedom of information in Russia and impunity for crimes of violence against journalists.
From photos they come alive for a brief moment to look at us.
- Anna Politkovskaya, 1958–2006
- Paul Khlebnikov, 1963–2004
- Natalya Estemirova, 1958–2009
- Yuri Shchekochikhin, 1950–2003
- Alexander Litvinenko, 1962–2006
- Boris Nemtsov, 1959–2015
- Sergei Magnitsky, 1972–2009
- Stanislav Markelov, 1974–2009
- Anastasia Baburova, 1983–2009
