The plaque on Politkovskaya's house has been restored for the 30th time.

Another temporary memorial plaque hung for less than a day on the building where Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. Activists have since restored it for the 30th time in two months.

As reported by the Caucasian Knot, on January 18, a memorial 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. Most of the temporary plaques installed by activists since then have hung for less than a day. By March 18, in addition to the memorial plaque, 29 temporary plaques had been installed.

The memorial plaque that activists hung on Politkovskaya's house on March 18 did not last even a day. Activists have already hung a new one, SotaVision reported today*.

According to the activists, they plan to continue doing so until the memorial plaque to the murdered journalist remains on her house forever.

Any civic expression, whether a plaque in memory of Anna Politkovskaya or a "Last Address" sign for a victim of Stalin's repressions, provokes 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, known for her articles on the war and human rights violations in Chechnya, was killed in Moscow on October 7, 2006. The court found that Lom-Ali Gaitukayev organized the murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Rustam Makhmudov has been identified as the direct 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 emphasized her contribution to the fight for freedom of speech, demanding that those who ordered her murder be identified.

"Caucasian Knot" publishes 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 residents of Chechnya.