Reporters working under fire

The Politkovskaya and Soldin Prize will be awarded in France

French Foreign Minister Catherine Katrina announced the establishment of Anna Politkovskaya and Arman Soldin, who will be presented in France “for journalistic courage” - reporters “working in combat zones, crisis zones or in the conditions of destabilization maneuvers”.

An announcement of the establishment of the award was made at the annual conference of the French ambassadors, which takes place in the Building of the Foreign Ministry of France in Paris.

For the first time, as the minister said, the award will be awarded “in November of this year” ( as reported by the “new” sources earlier , this should happen at the Paris Forum of the World , which in 2023 is held on November 10-11).

Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist in Novaya Gazeta, who discovered the truth about the second Russian-Chechen war, was killed in the entrance of her house on Forest Street in Moscow on October 7, 2006; Arman Soldin, AFP journalist, illuminating a full -scale tragedy in Ukraine, was killed by a rocket under Bakhmut on May 9, 2023. “The AFP video coordinator in Ukraine Arman Soldin (...) was killed at about 16:30 local time (13:30 according to Greenwich) in the Yar Chasov region, a Ukrainian city near Bakhmut, which is undergoing shelling from the Russian forces daily,” such a “lightning” released AFP about the death of his own reporter. The investigation of his death was opened, inter alia, the French National Anti -Terrorism Prosecutor's Office, it is conducted by employees of the Central Directorate for Combating Crimes against Humanity and Crimes on the basis of hatred (OCLCH). Soldin was 32 years old.

Tomorrow, August 30 - Anna Politkovskaya’s birthday, she could have turned 65. And for almost 17 years, that is, more expiration of the “statute of limitations” in criminal cases, the Russian investigation “does not find” customers of her murder.