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Yesterday’s New York Times editorial was devoted to the case of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Politkovskaya, who became known for her fearless investigative reporting of social issues in Russia and human rights abuses in Chechnya, was killed in her apartment building in 2006.
Five years on, no one has been convicted of her murder.
From the New York Times editorial:
At the time of her murder, Vladimir Putin, who is now the prime minister but was the president then, dismissed her journalism as “insignificant” and said that nobody “currently in office” could possibly have organized a crime that, he said, was committed “to create a wave of anti-Russian feeling.” To many Russians, that sounded like orders from the top that police or judges or prosecutors should take care not to accuse anyone in power.
Read Journalism.co.uk’s coverage of the case