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Written by Юлия Галямина, Ольга Сашина
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Пятница, 27 Июня 2008 |
Premier at the Sakharov Museum of the film: "Anna Politkovskaya: Seven years on the frontline"
On June 24th the Sakharov Museum held a premier of a Dutch film about
the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, according to a report by
SOBKOR.RU
The film, produced in 2008 by director Masha Novikova, is titled "Anna
Politkovskaya: Seven years on the frontline". In May the film was
premiered by the international human rights organization Amnesty
International.
Participants in the film spoke before the assembled audience: the
director of the human rights organization "Civil Cooperation", Svetlana
Gannushkina, and the journalist from Novaya Gazeta who conducted an
investigation into Politkovskaya's murder, Vyacheslav Izmailov. "The
usual response to another's misfortune, nothing to see here, move
along, didn't happen," said Gannushkina about Politkovskaya. In her
opinion, Vladimir Putin's words that Anna had no influence on the
community, is a lie. Izmailov, in turn, noted that Novaya Gazeta knows
those who directly ordered Politkovskaya's murder. He did not rule out
that Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, was behind the crime.
The film discusses Anna Politkovskaya's activities over the last seven
years of her life, the period in which she worked at Novaya Gazeta.
Documental footage is shown of the "cleansings" in Chechnya, in which
peaceful citizens disappear and are tortured and murdered. In
particular, the film highlights in detail the case of Colonel Yuri
Budanov and the tragedies at 'Nord-Ost' and Beslan. In addition, the
film utilizes portions of Anna Politkovskaya's speeches at the first
conference of the "Another Russia" conference in 2006.
"Anya was a soldier, one who didn't survive seven years of war," said Izmailov at the end of the film.
Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in October,
2006, in the stairwell of her home. Her colleagues are certain that
the reason for her murder was the journalist's professional activity.
PS. The film: "Anna Politkovskaya: Seven years on the frontline" can be seen here.
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