Assassination in Moscow
In 2009, Russian citizens honored journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya, assassinated three years earlier in her Moscow apartment building. Politkovskaya relentlessly investigated the atrocities during the war in Chechnya as well as the corruption in the Putin government. Honest journalism in post-Soviet Russia was increasingly dangerous; scores of journalists were murdered in the twenty years following the collapse of communism, and many of Politkovskaya’s collaborators were also killed. Several men were arrested, tried, and acquitted in the Politkovskaya case. (AP Photo / Pavel Golovkin.)