The plaque on Politkovskaya's house has been destroyed once again.

For the 24th time, unknown individuals have destroyed the memorial plaque on the Moscow building where Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered – once they smashed the plaque, and 23 times they smashed plaques that activists had restored.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on January 18, the plaque, which had hung for almost 20 years on the wall of the building on Lesnaya Street in Moscow where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was shot, was smashed for the first time. Civil Initiative activists installed a temporary plaque in its place, but on January 19, it, too, was destroyed. Most of the temporary plaques installed after that lasted less than 24 hours. On the evening of February 22nd, the 21st homemade plaque was installed on the journalist's house. On February 23rd, the 22nd homemade memorial plaque was installed by activists on the facade of Anna Politkovskaya's house in Moscow. A stenciled inscription about the journalist's murder was also painted over.

Vandals have again destroyed the memorial plaque on the façade of the building on Lesnaya Street where Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. This is the 24th incident since the beginning of the year - once a memorial plaque that stood for almost 20 years at the entrance to the building where Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered was destroyed, and 23 times temporary plaques that activists are restoring.

Also, the text stenciled on the wall, repeating the inscription on the original plaque stating that Politkovskaya lived and was murdered here, remains illegible, RusNews writes.

On February 23, activists had to restore the temporary plaque twice; after it was restored for the second time in a day, a bright green stain appeared in the place where the original plaque had been, another publication reports.

Thus, today is the 24th plaque to have been torn down from the journalist's entrance.

Any civic statement, whether it be a plaque in memory of Anna Politkovskaya or The "Last Address" sign for a victim of Stalin's repressions is provoking active aggression among supporters of the government in Russia. Impunity encourages spontaneous acts of vandalism, committed even without direct orders from above, human rights activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" indicated.

Anna Politkovskaya gave her last interview 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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