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The unsolved case and legacy of Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Politkovskaya memoiral

Anna Politkovskaya memoiral Source: Pavel Golovkin-AP-AAP

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya gained popularity with her tough publications about the war in Chechnya causing outrage not just in Grozny, but also in Moscow. Within 7 years from Politkovskaya's murder there were two trials but the investigation managed to find and sentence only the executors. Till today the criminal who ordered her murder has not been found. On the 10th anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya the correspondent of SBS Italian program, the historian Giuseppe D'Amato asked the deputy chief editor of Novaya Gazeta Sergey Sokolov to share the emotions of people who worked with Anna



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