Activists have restored the memorial plaque to Anna Politkovskaya for the eighth time.

On January 18, vandals smashed a memorial plaque bearing Anna Politkovskaya's name on Lesnaya Street in Moscow, near the building where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. Activists from the Civil Initiative group installed a temporary plaque to replace the one destroyed, but it was also destroyed on January 19. Representatives of a far-right organization designated as terrorist claimed responsibility for the destruction of the first plaque. The man who smashed a memorial plaque was fined 1,000 rubles, although he denied any wrongdoing, claiming the plaque "fell and broke on its own." By January 22, activists had replaced the broken plaque again, but the temporary plaque had been destroyed for the third time, and a resident of Politkovskaya's building reported the intentional destruction of the temporary plaques. Persistent attempts to destroy the plaque only bring Anna Politkovskaya's murder back into the spotlight, her ex-husband emphasized. On the morning of January 27, unknown individuals again destroyed a temporary plaque on the facade of the building on Lesnaya Street in Moscow, where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. By 10:35 a.m. Moscow time, neither the memorial plaque nor the portrait of the journalist installed by activists were visible on the building, the "Beware, News" project reported.

On the afternoon of January 27, representatives of the Yabloko party installed a new temporary plaque near Politkovskaya's home. Party leader Nikolai Rybakov and a member of the Yabloko Moscow branch bureau attached the wooden plaque to the railing at the entrance to the building, according to the party's official Telegram channel.

This marks the eighth time that a memorial plaque for Anna Politkovskaya has been installed near her home, according to the ZPCh Telegram channel.

Rybakov noted that he had contacted the Moscow police, demanding that those responsible for the plaque, which had hung on Anna Politkovskaya's home for many years, be found and held accountable. The party disagrees with the court's findings, which found only one person guilty, since, in their opinion, a group of neo-Nazis was involved in the destruction of the plaque.

“In their own words, they paid ‘tribute to the memory of their glorious predecessors,’ guilty of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, as well as a number of high-profile, ethnically motivated murders,” the Yabloko publication notes.

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 orchestrated 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".

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