Posts Tagged ‘novaya gazeta’

Stalin’s grandson loses libel claim

October 14th, 2009

Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, the grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has lost a libel case against newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Dzhugashvili alleged that an article describing his late grandfather as a “bloodthirsty cannibal” defamed Stalin’s “honour and dignity”. Read more here

Russian reporter goes into hiding

September 28th, 2009

Freelance journalist and human rights activist, Alexandr Podrabinek, has gone into hiding after getting death threats over a controversial article about the government’s defence of the Soviet Union. Podrabinek wrote his controversial article for the Ej.ru news website on 21 September, which discussed the Soviet Union’s crimes against the Russian people and criticised the way the current government is defending its image in the people’s collective memory. Read more here

Russia: getting away with murder

September 16th, 2009

ninaoThe unsolved killings of 17 journalists has had a chilling effect on the work of Russia’s press, writes Nina Ognianova

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Stalin’s grandson sues Novaya gazeta

September 3rd, 2009

The grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, is suing Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta for £200,000 over a story about declassified secret documents reportedly signed by Stalin, which ordered the execution of Soviet citizens. His lawyer, Leonid Zhura, said that half a century of lies had been poured over the dictator’s reputation and since he cannot defend himself “from the grave”, it is essential to put the story straight.

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Court orders new Politkovskaya probe

September 3rd, 2009

The Supreme Court in Moscow has ordered a new investigation into the murder of Novaya gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya. The outspoken critic of Russia’s actions in Chechnya was murdered in October 2006.

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Politkovskaya family to appeal again

August 19th, 2009

Anna Politkovskaya’s family is to appeal against a judge’s rejection of its request for the case against three alleged accomplices to be sent back to the prosecutor’s office for further investigation in conjunction with the investigation into all other people suspected of a role in her murder. The family’s request for a postponement for the purposes of combined further investigation was backed by both defence lawyers and prosecutors. Read more here

Novaya Gazeta pulls journalists from Chechnya

August 13th, 2009

In Russia, opposition daily Novaya Gazeta has announced that due to increasing dangers they will pull all their staff from Chechnya after a a string of killings there on human rights activists and journalists. In October 2006, the same paper’s investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, known for her scathing criticism of pro-Moscow Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and the Kremlin, was shot dead. Read more here

Court won’t halt Politkovskaya retrial

August 7th, 2009

A Russian court in Moscow refused a request from the family of Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya to halt a retrial of three men accused of being accomplices in her murder. Lawyers for the family of Politkovskaya, who was gunned down outside her apartment in 2006, had asked for the case to be returned to prosecutors and merged with an investigation into the mastermind behind the murder. The trial will resume in September. Read more here