Four people have been accused for the murder of the anti-government journalist Anna Politkovskaya of the Moscow based newspaper the Novaya Gazeta, the Guardian has reported today.
The tragic death of Anna Politkovskaya occurred while the famous journalist was coming back to her Moscow flat from a day of shopping at about 16:00 on 7 oct 2006. She's believed to have left her bags upstairs and took the lift downstairs where - as the lift doors oppened - she was surprised by a then unidentified murderer and was shot in the chest and the head. The murderer left the pistol in the crime scene.
All the people involved in this murder are or have been involved in the Russian government, which can only lead us to the conclusion that only someone in the government could have given the orders to kill the famous reporter.
According to the Guardian, the four men accused for the murder of Anna Politkovskaya are believed to be two Chechen brothers named Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, A former Moscow policeman - who has been accused of corruption before by the Russian authorities but has never been prosecuted - Sergi Khadzhikurbanov and a lieutenant colonel of the Russian FSB Spy Agency, Pavel Ryaguzov.
The tragic death of Anna Politkovskaya occurred while the famous journalist was coming back to her Moscow flat from a day of shopping at about 16:00 on 7 oct 2006. She's believed to have left her bags upstairs and took the lift downstairs where - as the lift doors oppened - she was surprised by a then unidentified murderer and was shot in the chest and the head. The murderer left the pistol in the crime scene.During the investigation some crucial pieces of evidence such as a mobile phone SIM card, some computer discs and some photos disappeared, the Guardian has reported today.
This is obviously one of the most scandalous cases in modern Russian History, and it is very clear that this murder has nothing to do with the fact that Ms. Politkovskaya owned some money to non-reliable sources as some Russian newspapers have reported. This is clearly the act of an angry politician who wanted to get rid of Anna Politkovskaya before she accuse - with proves on her hands, as she used to do - the government of any wrong doing.
All the people involved in this murder are or have been involved in the Russian government, which can only lead us to the conclusion that only someone in the government could have given the orders to kill the famous reporter. It is not a secret that most of the corrupt Russian politicians feared Mr. Politkovskaya because she unveiled some of the most polemic Russian crimes made by the Russian Government.
She often accused Putin of many criminal acts made made by government people during the time he was in power. It is not a secret that Mr. Putin - Russia's former president - hated everything that had to do with Anna Politkovskaya and the newspaper she wrote for, the Navaya Gazeta.
Will this case ever be solved? I believe the killers will be imprisoned, but the real mastermind responsible for Anna Politkovskaya's death will never be identified.
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