12:54, 13 February 2026

The twelfth temporary plaque has disappeared from Politkovskaya's house.

The plaque in memory of murdered Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been torn down for the thirteenth time - once, the original memorial plaque and 12 temporary plaques installed by activists were destroyed at the entrance to her Moscow apartment building.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", late in the evening of February 11, activists for the eleventh time installed a plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's Moscow apartment building, reminding everyone of the deliberate destruction of the murdered journalist's plaque: "Here in 2026, neo-Nazis destroyed Anna Politkovskaya's memorial plaque." By the morning of February 12, it had been torn down. On the evening of February 12th, the twelfth homemade memorial plaque appeared at the building's entrance.

On January 27th, Yabloko party representatives restored the memorial plaque for the eighth time. All previous plaques installed in January were torn down within a day of installation, and one resident of the building reported the intentional destruction of the temporary plaques. The plaque installed by Yabloko activists remained up for a week and a half, but was also destroyed on February 6th. Afterwards, the original text from the broken memorial plaque: "Anna Politkovskaya lived in this house and was vilely murdered on October 7, 2006," was stenciled onto the facade, replacing the plaque that had been there for nearly 20 years and was destroyed on January 18.

The plaque in memory of Anna Politkovskaya has been torn down for the thirteenth time in the past three weeks, RusNews reports today.

For the thirteenth time in a month, a memorial plaque to the journalist has disappeared from Anna Politkovskaya's house on Lesnaya Street in Moscow. Late on the evening of February 12, activists installed a new plaque; by the morning, it was gone. Only a stenciled inscription, duplicating the original memorial plaque, remained on the entrance wall.

On January 18, a memorial plaque bearing Anna Politkovskaya's name was smashed for the first time in a building on Lesnaya Street. Activists from the Civil Initiative group installed a temporary plaque in its place, but on January 19, it, too, was destroyed. Representatives of a far-right organization designated as terrorist claimed involvement in the destruction of the first plaque. The man who smashed the plaque was fined 1,000 rubles, but he denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the plaque "fell and broke on its own."

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 organized the murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Rustam Makhmudov was found to be the actual perpetrator, according to the Caucasian Knot report "The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya".

Anna Politkovskaya's Last Interview was given 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 the case of her murder have already been released, but the person who ordered it has not yet 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.

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