This film was kindly agreed by the authors, Eric Bergcraut and Thérèse Obrecht, to be presented on the site of Novaya Gazeta. The film is formed with unique shots and interviews made by the authors during many-year meetings with...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Last year there was a big scandal about the History Teacher’s Guide titled “History of Russia in 1945-2007” written by a certain Filippov who turned Stalin into an “effective manager” and explained necessity of the “sovereign democracy”....

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 photo in the yard What did we know about peaceful life? Nothing. All we knew was war, as we grew up as its children and we had nothing to compare it with. The pictured on the photo are my playmates: Alik Latinsky, Valya Karavaev, Borya...