Despite pouring rain, those remembering Anna Politkovskaya were present at Novopushkinsky square. “We expected no more than 20 people to come with such weather, and it’s 300 hundred to have come” expressed their surprise the OMON officers...

In all large cities of France the groups of activists will dramatize the crime committed on 7 October 2006 in Lesnaya Street in Moscow. They will be carrying Anna’s portrait with a slogan on it “Russia: the killed freedom”. According to...

On Memory day commemorating Anna Politkovskaya, St Petersburg’s dwellers get together traditionally on Troizkaya Square, in the city’s heart, near the Solovetsky Stone, laid in commemoration of victims of political repressions. The...

On 5 October, on his own birthday, the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov signed the decree about re-naming the Victory Avenue after V.V.Putin. “The role by Vladimir Putin cannot be overestimated within the story of relations of Chechen and...

7 October, a commemorative planting of a birch tree in memory of Anna Politkovskaya would take place in the Botanic garden in Sheffield, Central England. The councilmen will take part in the ceremony, headed by the lord mayor. The...

On 2nd anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s murder a silent commemoration manifestation was held near the Russian Embassy on Tehtaankatu Street. The organizers of the action were the Finnish Branch of Amnesty International, Finnish Pen...

Old age is curable. Moreover, this is just “vestige of the past”, inherited by humans from the animals. This is how it is considered by the Academician Vladimir Skulachev, the director of research institute of physics-chemical biology at...

There were many surprises on that Monday evening. A few hundreds of dear for us people – famous actors and film directors, politicians and businessmen, journalists and editors – came to the theater named “Masterskaya Petra Fomenko” to...

7 October 2006 our colleague and friend, special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta Anna Politkovskaya was slain. We invite everyone to take part in commemoration meeting that will be held on 7 October 2008 from 1:30 p.m. till 3:15 p.m. in...

In their time, soviet kids were not spared from the grammar textbooks and they learnt forever an absurdity that Moskvich and Zaporozhez (soviet car makes) should be capitalized, while “ford” and “chevrolet” should be written exactly with a...

Thursday 18 September the American National Center of Constitution (Philadelphia) awarded the former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with the Medal of Freedom for his giving freedom and hope to millions of people living beyond the iron...

Friday 19 September Peter Wins, the businessman and founder of the Prize after Andrei Sakharov, titled “Journalism As Deed”, sent an open letter to Dmitry Medvedev, asking him for protection against the police checking. The checking has...

The names of Cristina Kurbatova and Arseny Kurilenko, both were 13 when killed during the assault made on the Theater Center on Dubrovka Street, will be immortalized at Moscow Cadet School #1700. Their names will be sounding at every...

A day before the anniversary of the terrorist attack on America the media burst with another, scientific, sensation. In the middle of Europe a testing launch had been made of the most powerful accelerator ever – the Big hadron collider...

Within this relatively short period the specialists from the first Russian specialized clinic have brought to life hundreds of patients with leukemia. That’s the achieved result, the yesterday that one can be proud of. However, there are...