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18 years without Anna
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Action in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in St. Petersburg. Photo: Daria Dementieva
18 years ago at 16:00 Anna Politkovskaya was shot. The customer has not been found, and other persons involved, except the perpetrators, have not been convicted. This text that we are repeating today was published in 2021.
Three years later there is practically nothing to add to it. Except for a short story about what happened to the convicts. Presumably, only one remained in prison - Rustam Makhmudov, a killer sentenced to life. Presumably because SVO and anything can happen. Sergei Khazhikurbanov was released and went to the front, where he seemed to be serving as an officer and in good standing. Dzhabrail Makhmudov was released, having previously been transferred to serve his sentence from the Tula region, naturally, to Chechnya. Ibragim Makhmudov, according to incompletely verified data, died in a colony. Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, sentenced to life imprisonment, died in the prison hospital. The circumstances of his death are not fully known; according to our sources, he was really very ill. Just before his death he was looking for outlets for Novaya Gazeta. Didn't have time. Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov should be free. But there is no confirmed information about the fate of the officer of the secret unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Because he is still under the witness protection program in the murder cases of Paul Klebnikov and Anna Politkovskaya. Lawyers for Anna’s family and journalists from Novaya Gazeta have no information that operational officers came to the convicts to continue the investigation and find out who else was involved in the murder. On the contrary, we have testimony from witnesses that no one came. The investigation has not been and is not ongoing.
