A plaque commemorating Anna Politkovskaya was torn from the wall of her home for the fifth time.

A memorial plaque installed on the evening of January 24th on the building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered has been destroyed. Persistent attempts to remove the plaque only bring Anna Politkovskaya's murder back into the spotlight, her ex-husband emphasized.

A memorial plaque installed on the evening of January 24th in memory of journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya has disappeared again. Activists placed the plaque on a flagpole, significantly taller than a person, but it did not help, according to the human rights project "Gulagu.net."

The family does not intend to take any action against the plaque's removal, stated the journalist's ex-husband, Alexander Politkovsky.

"This is utter impotence. It will be counterproductive. While the plaque's existence for many years hardly affected anyone, its destruction today persistently brings the very fact of the murder in the elevator of this building back into the spotlight. "The result is the opposite," RBC quoted Politkovsky as saying today.

He considered the destruction of the sign "only the beginning of aggressive impotence." "They don't know how to speak out publicly. To make a mess—that's true!" Politkovsky concluded.

The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow reported that law enforcement had not received any information about the sign's removal, the agency added.

Anna Politkovskaya, known for her articles on the war and human rights violations in Chechnya, was murdered in Moscow on October 7, 2006. The court found that Lom-Ali Gaitukayev had organized the murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Rustam Makhmudov has been identified as the perpetrator, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya".

Last Interview Anna Politkovskaya gave to a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent an hour and a half before her death. In this interview, the journalist commented on Ramzan Kadyrov's career prospects.

In 2025, on the 19th anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya's murder, residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg brought flowers to her grave, the Novaya Gazeta office, and the memorial to the victims of repression. Some of those convicted in her murder have already been released, but the mastermind behind the killing has never been convicted, Politkovskaya's colleagues recalled.

On the fifth anniversary of Politkovskaya's murder, journalists and human rights activists at a rally in Tbilisi highlighted her contribution to the fight for freedom of speech, demanding that those who ordered her murder be identified.

"Caucasian Knot" is publishing materials dedicated to Politkovskaya on the thematic page "Politkovskaya and Estemirova," which also contains materials about Anna's friend, journalist and human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, who was killed in 2009 and also worked on the problems of the residents of Chechnya.

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