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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: U.S., OSCE urge Russia to find masterminds of Politkovskaya murder

Published Oct. 7, 2016 at 1:43 pm

This file photo taken on October 11, 2006 shows protestors hold portraits of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya outiside the Residenz palace complex in central Munich during Vladimir Putin's welcoming ceremony. An empty chair and a small potted palm still stand in Anna Politkovskaya's former office, preserved as a shrine by her colleagues at the Novaya Gazeta opposition newspaper. An uncompromising critic of Russia's bloody suppression of its opponents in Chechnya, the journalist was gunned down on October 7, 2006 in the entrance hall of her apartment block. She was 48. (AFP)

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The U.S. State Department has urged Russian authorities to find those who ordered the 2006 murder of prominent Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

In the statement issued on October 6 — a day before the 10th anniversary of her killing — the State Department said Politkovskaya and other journalists in Russia’s North Caucasus in the last 20 years were “killed in retaliation for” their “efforts to uncover corruption, abuse, and violations of human rights.”