<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - anna-politkovskaya</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/anna-politkovskaya</link><description>Newsvine - anna-politkovskaya</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:30:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 12:14:17 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Ex-cop sentenced for Russian journalist's murder</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Moscow judge has sentenced a former police officer to 11 years in prison and fined him 3 million rubles (about $100,000) for his part in the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15843940-ex-cop-sentenced-for-russian-journalists-murder</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/11/15843940-ex-cop-sentenced-for-russian-journalists-murder</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:08:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3351da09-b9df-459e-b141-d701b7cef836.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="367" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3351da09-b9df-459e-b141-d701b7cef836.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="167" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Ilya, son of slain investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The relatives of a slain Russian journalist are contesting a deal that was made between one of the accused in the case and the authorities investigating the case. While six individuals were originally charged for organizing and carrying out the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a sharp critic of the Kremlin's policies in Chechnya, none of them are now sitting behind bars for the crime. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=946385cf-d897-4465-b2e3-f716d7b20ad4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="290" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=946385cf-d897-4465-b2e3-f716d7b20ad4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Sergei Sokolov, a deputy editor of Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper where Anna Politkovskaya worked before her 2006 murder, speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The relatives of a slain Russian journalist are contesting a deal that was made between one of the accused in the case and the authorities investigating the case. While six individuals were originally charged for organizing and carrying out the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a sharp critic of the Kremlin's policies in Chechnya, none of them are now sitting behind bars for the crime. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d5e11e4d-24de-45bc-9163-f28bc352e97e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="364" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d5e11e4d-24de-45bc-9163-f28bc352e97e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta where Anna Politkovskaya worked before her 2006 murder, speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The relatives of a slain Russian journalist are contesting a deal that was made between one of the accused in the case and the authorities investigating the case. While six individuals were originally charged for organizing and carrying out the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a sharp critic of the Kremlin's policies in Chechnya, none of them are now sitting behind bars for the crime. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9fbc5267-e7c5-4866-ac7e-b4673d3f437f.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="386" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9fbc5267-e7c5-4866-ac7e-b4673d3f437f.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="159" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Anna Stavitskay, a lawyer who represented Politkovskaya's family at the trial, looks on during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The relatives of a slain Russian journalist are contesting a deal that was made between one of the accused in the case and the authorities investigating the case. While six individuals were originally charged for organizing and carrying out the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a sharp critic of the Kremlin's policies in Chechnya, none of them are now sitting behind bars for the crime. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=92673916-bf10-437b-89da-9ed46d262fcd.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="290" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=92673916-bf10-437b-89da-9ed46d262fcd.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenko, right, speaks with his lawyer at the Moscow City Court, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012.  Pavlyuchenkov, who is accused of helping track the movements of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and assisting her murderers, is set to go on trial Wednesday after reaching a deal to assist investigators. The suspected triggerman and four others accused of involvement in the killing will be tried separately. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4f0714c4-6424-4991-b1bb-40083832e0f4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="364" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4f0714c4-6424-4991-b1bb-40083832e0f4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenko speaks with the press at the Moscow City Court, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012.  Pavlyuchenkov, who is accused of helping track the movements of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and assisting her murderers, is set to go on trial Wednesday after reaching a deal to assist investigators. The suspected triggerman and four others accused of involvement in the killing will be tried separately. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=27b4f460-2f8b-4f18-b2bd-9d8f8a9c1d4a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="259" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=27b4f460-2f8b-4f18-b2bd-9d8f8a9c1d4a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenko, right, speaks with his lawyer at the Moscow City Court, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012.  Pavlyuchenkov, who is accused of helping track the movements of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and assisting her murderers, is set to go on trial Wednesday after reaching a deal to assist investigators. The suspected triggerman and four others accused of involvement in the killing will be tried separately. Sitting in the background are Politkovskaya's children Ilya, left, and Vera, right, and their lawyer Anna Stavitskaya, center. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Russian police: Politkovskaya killed for reporting</title>
<description><![CDATA[Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was killed for her criticism of Russian officials, an investigator who led the murder probe says.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Isachenkov]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Vladimir Isachenkov]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/09/15047737-russian-police-politkovskaya-killed-for-reporting</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/09/15047737-russian-police-politkovskaya-killed-for-reporting</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:10:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=433cb12e-e031-4213-8869-7171f79861a9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=433cb12e-e031-4213-8869-7171f79861a9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE- A woman places flowers before a portrait of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in Moscow, in this file photo dated Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009.  Investigator Petros Garibian who led the murder probe said in an interview published Friday Nov. 9, 2012, that Politkovskaya was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building, killed for her criticism of Russian officials, the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya.(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Moscow rally held to remember reporter's murder</title>
<description><![CDATA[Around 200 people held a rally Sunday in Moscow to mark the sixth anniversary of the unsolved murder of crusading reporter Anna Politkovskaya.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/07/14277249-moscow-rally-held-to-remember-reporters-murder</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/07/14277249-moscow-rally-held-to-remember-reporters-murder</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>journalist</category><category>world-news</category><category>murdered</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Oct 2012 20:10:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e3c9f058-f8a8-4621-b4f5-51c067afd610.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e3c9f058-f8a8-4621-b4f5-51c067afd610.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;People rally, holding portraits of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in downtown Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. About 200 people rallied Thursday on the 6th anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, calling on the authorities to find and punish the killers of journalists and human rights activists in Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=897574ed-322c-4a90-b8b1-9560190d2096.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=897574ed-322c-4a90-b8b1-9560190d2096.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;People rally, holding portraits of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in downtown Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. About 200 people rallied Thursday on the 6th anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, calling on the authorities to find and punish the killers of journalists and human rights activists in Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e1d83db5-8023-4ef0-990a-967237b7dbbe.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=e1d83db5-8023-4ef0-990a-967237b7dbbe.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Svetlana Gannushkina, left, a mathematician and human rights activist and Valery Borshchev, a member of the Board of the All-Russian human rights movement &quot;For Human Rights&quot; stand holding portraits of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in downtown Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. About 200 people rallied Thursday on the 6th anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, calling on the authorities to find and punish the killers of journalists and human rights activists in Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3273f66c-78f4-4b81-be38-89ac6c9c9bf6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="294" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3273f66c-78f4-4b81-be38-89ac6c9c9bf6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;An elderly woman holds a portrait of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya,during a rally in downtown Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. About 200 people rallied Thursday on the 6th anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, calling on the authorities to find and punish the killers of journalists and human rights activists in Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>New charges filed in Politkovskaya's killing probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[Russian investigators marked the 5th anniversary of journalist Anna Politkovskaya's killing on Friday by filing new charges against suspects involved in the slaying, but they have remained silent about who might have ordered her murder.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Isachenkov]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Vladimir Isachenkov]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/07/8199072-new-charges-filed-in-politkovskayas-killing-probe</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/07/8199072-new-charges-filed-in-politkovskayas-killing-probe</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Fri, 7 Oct 2011 06:18:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/dcfdaed8-1fbb-4882-991d-71ef0ced3eea.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="363" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/dcfdaed8-1fbb-4882-991d-71ef0ced3eea.jpg" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 2004 file photo reporter Anna Politkovskaya attends a rally against war in Chechnya in downtown Moscow, Russia. Russian investigators said Friday Oct. 7, 2011 they were filing new charges against several people accused of involvement in the killing of Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building on Oct. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Fyodor Savintsev, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Russia arrests high-ranking police officer in Anna Politkovskaya murder case</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Russian investigators say a high-ranking retired police officer who allegedly organized the 2006 murder of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been arrested &ndash; potentially the breakthrough her family and friends have been waiting for after many false starts and two &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Red Wolf]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Red Wolf]]></source><link>http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/24/7463954-russia-arrests-high-ranking-police-officer-in-anna-politkovskaya-murder-case</link><guid>http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/24/7463954-russia-arrests-high-ranking-police-officer-in-anna-politkovskaya-murder-case</guid><category>russia</category><category>assassination</category><category>police</category><category>journalism</category><category>murder</category><category>crime</category><category>world-news</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>ru-news</category><category>dmitry-pavlyuchenkov</category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:45:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ministry says tests show sprouts from an organic farm are not cause of German E. coli outbreak.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/31/6752910-</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/31/6752910-</guid><category>eu</category><category>apnewsalert</category><category>sports</category><category>health</category><category>ratko-mladic</category><category>social-democrats</category><category>world-news</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>william-hague</category><category>former-bosnian-serb</category><category>shukri-ghanem</category><category>nato-attacks</category><category>lawyer-document</category><category>projection-portugal</category><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 08:04:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Russia: suspect charged with murder of journalist</title>
<description><![CDATA[A suspect has been charged with murder in the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Russian investigators said Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/30/6754158-russia-suspect-charged-with-murder-of-journalist</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/30/6754158-russia-suspect-charged-with-murder-of-journalist</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:17:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/25731758-a808-4c8f-8baa-a2247a125e36.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="363" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/25731758-a808-4c8f-8baa-a2247a125e36.jpg" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 2004 file photo reporter Anna Politkovskaya attends a rally against war in Chechnya in downtown Moscow, Russia.  The suspected triggerman in the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been arrested, Russian officials said Tuesday, May 31, 2011. The suspect, Rustam Makhmudov, was arrested in Chechnya and is to be transferred to Moscow soon, said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's Investigative Committee, the country's top criminal investigation body. Politkovskaya was internationally renowned for her reports in the newspaper Novaya Gazeta on violence, police oppression and corruption in Chechnya and other parts of the Russian Caucasus gripped by an Islamic insurgency. She was a sharp critic of the Kremlin and of its appointed strongman in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. She was gunned down in her Moscow apartment building after returning from a shopping trip, her body found in the building's elevator. (AP Photo/Fyodor Savintsev, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>It's Official: None American News is the ENEMY</title>
<description><![CDATA["We can't allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies,"  Walter Isaacson said.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peace*Talk]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Peace*Talk]]></source><link>http://peacetalk.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/06/5240800-its-official-none-american-news-is-the-enemy</link><guid>http://peacetalk.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/06/5240800-its-official-none-american-news-is-the-enemy</guid><category>world-news</category><category>european-parliament</category><category>tom-hicks</category><category>america-america</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>geert-wilders</category><category>chechen-republic</category><category>great-statue</category><category>usa-politics-mass</category><category>far-east-hospitals</category><category>sailing-off-it</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:36:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>War Poisons</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Military laboratories are constantly seeking new poisons with special attention to the world's animal and plant, biological toxins.Examples: Snakes as the cobra, which the fish Arothron hispidus Arothron meleagris or, like frogs Phyllobates aurotaenia, or TARIC Toros, shellfi&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[camdic]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[camdic]]></source><link>http://camdic.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/05/4821846-war-poisons</link><guid>http://camdic.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/05/4821846-war-poisons</guid><category>health</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>georgi-markov</category><category>vladimir-vasilev</category><category>lab-anthrax-as-cancer-killer</category><pubDate>Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:15:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Chechen leader allegedly ordered rivals' killings</title>
<description><![CDATA[The brother of two murdered opponents of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov claims in a letter that the Kremlin-backed Chehen leader has ordered the killing of him and the remaining brothers.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com U.S. & World News]]></source><link>http://world-news.newsvine.com/_news/2010/04/21/4186344-chechen-leader-allegedly-ordered-rivals-killings</link><guid>http://world-news.newsvine.com/_news/2010/04/21/4186344-chechen-leader-allegedly-ordered-rivals-killings</guid><category>russia</category><category>europe</category><category>social-issues</category><category>crime</category><category>violent-crime</category><category>general-news</category><category>world-news</category><category>social-affairs</category><category>ramzan-kadyrov</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>human-rights-and-civil-liberties</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:11:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Russian newspaper Web site hacked, paralyzed</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Web site of Russia's highest-profile independent newspaper has been paralyzed for a week by a sustained attack from hackers, its deputy editor said Monday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[msnbc.com technology & science]]></source><link>http://technology-science.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/01/3840443-russian-newspaper-web-site-hacked-paralyzed</link><guid>http://technology-science.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/01/3840443-russian-newspaper-web-site-hacked-paralyzed</guid><category>media</category><category>security</category><category>world-news</category><category>vladimir-putin</category><category>news-media</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>technology-science</category><pubDate>Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:00:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Hundreds rally in Moscow in Politkovskaya's memory</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of people urged Russian authorities to find and punish the killers of journalists and human rights activists in Russia, rallying Wednesday to mark the third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/06/3354226-hundreds-rally-in-moscow-in-politkovskayas-memory</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/06/3354226-hundreds-rally-in-moscow-in-politkovskayas-memory</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:53:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/38546480-2324-40e9-aa41-1ab0cae3a0fa.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="347" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/38546480-2324-40e9-aa41-1ab0cae3a0fa.jpg" width="120" height="177" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;From left, Editor at Novaya Gazeta Sergei Sokolov, Ilya Politkovsky, son of murdered Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and Vera, daughter of Anna Politkovskaya, seen at a news conference in Moscow, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. Three years after their mother was shot dead, the son and daughter of Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya say they have little hope the killers will be brought to justice, despite an announcement that new suspects have been found. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9c045750-a0e1-41ed-99f6-b5a335676c6a.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9c045750-a0e1-41ed-99f6-b5a335676c6a.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Ilya Politkovsky, left, son of murdered Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and Vera, daughter of Anna Politkovskaya, seen at a news conference in Moscow, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009.  Three years after their mother was shot dead, the son and daughter of Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya say they have little hope the killers will be brought to justice, despite an announcement that new suspects have been found. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9e951fe6-95f4-4839-8cc3-45cd46143940.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9e951fe6-95f4-4839-8cc3-45cd46143940.jpg" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;People rally holding portraits of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in downtown Moscow, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Hundreds of people rallied Wednesday on the third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, calling on the authorities to find and punish the killers of journalists and human rights activists in Russia. (AP Photo/Anna Shevelyova)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/d6bcc030-5c1e-4df9-b5e9-252167dc3469.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="264" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/d6bcc030-5c1e-4df9-b5e9-252167dc3469.jpg" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;People rally, holding portraits of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in downtown Moscow Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Hundreds of people rallied Wednesday on the third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, calling on the authorities to find and punish the killers of journalists and human rights activists in Russia. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/834d4edd-53b3-4e15-8785-15ca83a30c64.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="273" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/834d4edd-53b3-4e15-8785-15ca83a30c64.jpg" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;People rally holding portraits of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya in downtown Moscow Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Hundreds of people rallied Wednesday on the third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, calling on the authorities to find and punish the killers of journalists and human rights activists in Russia. Russian politician Grigory Yavlinskyis at left.(AP Photo/Anna Shevelyova)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/fde34e07-9a37-412a-aefe-d5c26415a055.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="460" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/fde34e07-9a37-412a-aefe-d5c26415a055.jpg" width="120" height="138" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;People rally holding portraits of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya in downtown Moscow Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Hundreds of people rallied Wednesday on the third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, calling on the authorities to find and punish the killers of journalists and human rights activists in Russia.(AP Photo/Anna Shevelyova)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/cd7ad967-516f-4dfa-a84a-21cb1b170fd1.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="287" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/cd7ad967-516f-4dfa-a84a-21cb1b170fd1.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Russian Premier Vladimir Putin, second left at the background, meets with Russian writers at the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. Others from left at the background are: literary critic Alexander Arkhangelsky, Tatiana Ustinova and Valentin Rasputin. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti,Alexei Druzhinin, pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/315de46c-6d7e-4a6f-983e-9a50c2b08ee8.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="260" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/315de46c-6d7e-4a6f-983e-9a50c2b08ee8.jpg" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Russian Premier Vladimir Putin, third left, meets with Russian writers at the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin,pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Court orders renewed probe into Russian slaying</title>
<description><![CDATA[Russia's Supreme Court changed the rules Thursday for the investigation into Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya's killing, giving her family a glimmer of hope for justice and testing President Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to judicial reform.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Gutterman]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Steve Gutterman]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/03/3220448-court-orders-renewed-probe-into-russian-slaying</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/03/3220448-court-orders-renewed-probe-into-russian-slaying</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>world-news</category><category>vladimir-putin</category><category>russia-supreme-court</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>dmitry-medvedev</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Sep 2009 07:46:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/fb274dcf-0fcf-4c7f-90cf-39e1f57bc61f.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="363" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/fb274dcf-0fcf-4c7f-90cf-39e1f57bc61f.jpg" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE -- In this Oct. 2004 file photo reporter Anna Politkovskaya attends a rally against war in Chechnya in downtown Moscow. Russia's Supreme Court changed the rules Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 for the investigation into Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya's killing, giving her family a glimmer of hope for justice and in a case that is testing President Dmitry Medvedev's commitment to change.  But lawyers and colleagues of Politkovskaya, the fearless investigative reporter who was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in 2006, suggested the decision will lead to a dead end unless the authorities make an honest effort to solve a crime that underscored the risks run by Russians who challenged Vladimir Putin's Kremlin  (AP Photo/Fyodor Savintsev, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Russian court refuses new Politkovskaya inquiry</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Moscow court rejected a plea by the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya for a new investigation into her death, leading critics again to accuse authorities of not being interested in hunting the perpetrators.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karina Ioffee]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Karina Ioffee]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/05/3121421-russian-court-refuses-new-politkovskaya-inquiry</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/05/3121421-russian-court-refuses-new-politkovskaya-inquiry</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:40:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/1adef930-92c7-4afb-8ed7-c9a35cfa3ff3.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="285" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/1adef930-92c7-4afb-8ed7-c9a35cfa3ff3.jpg" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE -- In this Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009, photo the four suspects in the murder case of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, from left,   Dzhabrail Makhmudov, Ibragim Makhmudov, Pavel Ryaguzov, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov,  sit inside the defendants' cage at a Moscow court. A Moscow court on Friday, Aug. 7, 2009, rejected a plea by the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya for a new investigation into her death in a decision that has amplified criticism that authorities are not interested in pursuing those behind her slaying. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/3a3cf00e-32b9-4e8f-92ad-76efe2e5e85c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="363" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/3a3cf00e-32b9-4e8f-92ad-76efe2e5e85c.jpg" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE -- In this October 2004 photo reporter Anna Politkovskaya attends a rally against war in Chechnya in downtown Moscow. A Moscow court on Friday, Aug. 7, 2009, rejected a plea by the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya for a new investigation into her death in a decision that has amplified criticism that authorities are not interested in pursuing those behind her slaying. (AP Photo/Fyodor Savintsev, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Russia orders retrial in murdered journalist case</title>
<description><![CDATA[Russia's supreme court has ordered a new trial of the suspects in the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya after annulling February acquittals. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Red Wolf]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Red Wolf]]></source><link>http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/25/2970153-russia-orders-retrial-in-murdered-journalist-case</link><guid>http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/25/2970153-russia-orders-retrial-in-murdered-journalist-case</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>russia</category><category>assassination</category><category>corruption</category><category>journalism</category><category>murder</category><category>crime</category><category>legal</category><category>world-news</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>ru-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:51:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Politkovskaya murder acquittal overturned</title>
<description><![CDATA[Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the acquittal of three men charged with the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist whose reporting directly challenged the country's most powerful leaders.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynn Berry]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lynn Berry]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/25/2967232-politkovskaya-murder-acquittal-overturned</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/25/2967232-politkovskaya-murder-acquittal-overturned</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>russia-supreme-court</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:52:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>We can't allow Russia's dissidents to be killed on Europe's streets</title>
<description><![CDATA[The critics of Vladimir Putin – Russia's Prime Minister and former KGB agent – have a strange habit of being found shot or stabbed or poisoned. This week, I met a man who is half-expecting an assassin's bullet – here, in London. He is not alone.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mego-507171]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Mego-507171]]></source><link>http://meganrandall.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/25/2477022-we-cant-allow-russias-dissidents-to-be-killed-on-europes-streets</link><guid>http://meganrandall.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/25/2477022-we-cant-allow-russias-dissidents-to-be-killed-on-europes-streets</guid><category>russia</category><category>trial</category><category>dissidents</category><category>world-news</category><category>chechnya</category><category>stalin</category><category>acquitted</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>alexander-litvinenko</category><category>vladmir-puting</category><category>ahmed-zakayev</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:56:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>3 men acquitted in murder of Russian journalist</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Moscow jury ruled unanimously on Thursday to acquit three men in the 2006 murder of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, frustrating state prosecutors' hopes of putting to rest a case that cast a shadow over Vladimir Putin's Russia.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Red Wolf]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Red Wolf]]></source><link>http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/20/2456178-3-men-acquitted-in-murder-of-russian-journalist</link><guid>http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/20/2456178-3-men-acquitted-in-murder-of-russian-journalist</guid><category>russia</category><category>assassination</category><category>corruption</category><category>journalism</category><category>murder</category><category>crime</category><category>legal</category><category>world-news</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><category>ru-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:12:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Appeal to be filed in Politkovskaya murder case</title>
<description><![CDATA[Russian prosecutors said Friday they will appeal the acquittal of three men in the murder of acclaimed journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and the presiding judge in the case sent it back to investigators to continue the probe.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Isachenkov]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Vladimir Isachenkov]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/17/2444851-appeal-to-be-filed-in-politkovskaya-murder-case</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/17/2444851-appeal-to-be-filed-in-politkovskaya-murder-case</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:51:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a3563576-0abe-49e6-beff-b76e0e453850.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="359" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a3563576-0abe-49e6-beff-b76e0e453850.jpg" width="120" height="171" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Defense lawyer Murad Musayev addresses the media outside a court during the trial of three men charged with murdering Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. Musayev on Tuesday accused the prosecution of fabricating evidence. The lawyer made the claim Tuesday in the defense's final arguments. He described the evidence against his client and two other defendants as &quot;dust, fluff and ash.&quot; (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)   &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/0628c5ab-1e6d-41b6-be92-488be63de0d9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="250" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/0628c5ab-1e6d-41b6-be92-488be63de0d9.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Lawyers Murad Musayev, center left, and Valery Chernikov, center right,  speak to the media outside the court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009.  In the trial of three men charged with murdering Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya Musayev has accused the prosecution of fabricating evidence. He described the evidence against his client and two other defendants as &quot;dust, fluff and ash.&quot; (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)   &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/bd2721b9-b140-4100-aafc-5347f3f55d7b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="248" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/bd2721b9-b140-4100-aafc-5347f3f55d7b.jpg" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The four suspects in the murder case of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, from left  Dzhabrail Makhmudov, Ibragim Makhmudov, Pavel Ryaguzov, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov,  sit inside the defendants' cage at a Moscow court on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. Authorities link the killing of Politkovskaya to her job as a journalist who exposed alleged abuses by government forces in Chechnya in articles for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Her murder caused an international outcry. (AP Photo/ Mikhail Metzel)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/e0e0c613-1f8c-4f2d-968c-167594e269a6.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="271" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/e0e0c613-1f8c-4f2d-968c-167594e269a6.jpg" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The four suspects in the murder case of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, from left,  Dzhabrail Makhmudov, Ibragim Makhmudov, Pavel Ryaguzov, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov,  sit inside the defendants' cage at a Moscow court on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. Authorities link the killing of Politkovskaya to her job as a journalist who exposed alleged abuses by government forces in Chechnya in articles for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Her murder caused an international outcry. (AP Photo/ Mikhail Metzel)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Politkovskaya suspect says he was asked to lie</title>
<description><![CDATA[The alleged organizer of the 2006 murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya claims investigators urged him to falsely incriminate either Chechnya's president or a prominent Kremlin foe, according to a defense lawyer at the trial.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/05/2398206-politkovskaya-suspect-says-he-was-asked-to-lie</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/05/2398206-politkovskaya-suspect-says-he-was-asked-to-lie</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:55:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Phone records said to help Politkovskaya suspects</title>
<description><![CDATA[Lawyers defending two Chechen men charged in the 2006 slaying of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya presented phone records Thursday that they said disprove prosecutors' claims the suspects rehearsed the brazen shooting days before it took place.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/22/2343907-phone-records-said-to-help-politkovskaya-suspects</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/22/2343907-phone-records-said-to-help-politkovskaya-suspects</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:17:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Politkovskaya suspect accused of working for gov't</title>
<description><![CDATA[A man accused in the slaying of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya was working for Russia's Federal Security Service, one of her editors charged Friday at the trial of her suspected killers.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/01/2166515-politkovskaya-suspect-accused-of-working-for-govt</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/01/2166515-politkovskaya-suspect-accused-of-working-for-govt</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>federal-security-service</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:49:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/99346ace-7825-4dee-a918-a2a0f627e602.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="314" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/99346ace-7825-4dee-a918-a2a0f627e602.jpg" width="120" height="196" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Ibragim Makhmudov, center, sits behind bars before a session in the military court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Defense lawyers in the trial of three men charged in the killing of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya said Monday that prosecutors' evidence is insufficient. Ibragim Makhmudov is one of three men being charged with the killing of Politkovskaya. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/6f724026-c6b8-4116-9096-0f325e8587f4.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/6f724026-c6b8-4116-9096-0f325e8587f4.jpg" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Dhzabrail Makhmudov, right, gestures behind bars before a session in the military court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Defense lawyers in the trial of three men charged in the killing of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya said Monday that prosecutors' evidence is insufficient. Dhzabrail Makhmudov is one of three men being charged with the killing of Politkovskaya. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ac27e2e3-46c1-4815-a1d5-6922f5ee3a79.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="242" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ac27e2e3-46c1-4815-a1d5-6922f5ee3a79.jpg" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Brothers, Dzhabrail, center, and Ibragim Makhmudov, right, charged with the killing of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, seen before a trial in a military court in Moscow, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. A lawyer says a man accused of killing Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya has offered to turn himself in if authorities promise him an open trial by jury. The three men being tried on murder charges include a former police officer and two Makhmudov's brothers. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Politkovskaya trial resumes earlier than announced</title>
<description><![CDATA[The trial of three men accused in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya resumes Tuesday, a week earlier than had been announced.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/24/2165241-politkovskaya-trial-resumes-earlier-than-announced</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/24/2165241-politkovskaya-trial-resumes-earlier-than-announced</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:51:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Politkovskaya's daughter: mother saw strangers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya saw suspicious strangers near her home in the weeks before she was killed, her daughter testified Thursday at the trial of three men accused of helping set up her shooting.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David Nowak]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/24/2145028-politkovskayas-daughter-mother-saw-strangers</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/24/2145028-politkovskayas-daughter-mother-saw-strangers</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:12:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9cba66f9-af3f-4dcf-a458-9ede486b4b40.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="378" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9cba66f9-af3f-4dcf-a458-9ede486b4b40.jpg" width="120" height="163" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;From left: Pavel Ryguzov, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, Ibragim and Dhzabrail Makhmudov sit behind bars at a court room in Moscow in this Nov. 17, 2008 file picture. The suspects being tried on murder charges are Sergei Khadzhikurbanov &amp;#8212; a former Moscow police officer &amp;#8212; and the Makhmudov brothers, Ibragim and Dzhabrail. A lawyer says a Moscow court has reversed itself and ordered the murder trial of journalist Anna Politkovskaya closed to the public. Lawyer Karinna Moskalenko says the Moscow District Military Court made the decision after jurors refused to enter the courtroom fearing publicity from journalists covering the trial. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a72ab277-2b76-4fa0-9ad5-e41153ed60f2.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="322" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a72ab277-2b76-4fa0-9ad5-e41153ed60f2.jpg" width="120" height="97" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A guard sits, while relatives and press wait at a Moscow military court on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. The judge for the trial of three men accused in the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has refused to step aside after prosecutors accused him of bias. Politkovskaya's reporting on human rights abuses in Chechnya embarrassed the Kremlin. Her shooting death in 2006 caused international outrage. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Russian court to resume Politkovskaya murder trial</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Moscow court says the trial of three men accused of murdering journalist Anna Politkovskaya will resume a week earlier than had been announced.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/24/2165222-russian-court-to-resume-politkovskaya-murder-trial</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/24/2165222-russian-court-to-resume-politkovskaya-murder-trial</guid><category>eu</category><category>russia</category><category>world-news</category><category>politkovskaya</category><category>anna-politkovskaya</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:12:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>