The assassination of Anna Politkovskaya: The first detailed account of a murder investigation

15 years ago today our colleague and journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered. Today we will tell you the story of the investigation into her murder we’ve been pursuing all these years. What was the role of the MVD and the FSD in the killing of our journalist? Why were the authorities doing everything they could to follow a false trail in the search for the customer? Today, for the first time ever, we will show you our secret witness, thanks to whom the investigation was able to find the murderers and the organizers, but fell short for political reasons. All this and more in the documentary film “How Anna, whose life brought immense good to the country and whose death caused great damage, was murdered”. Video 18+ 00:00 “Today we will tell you what not many know” 03:29 About Anna 18:55 Anna’s murder 21:01 The private investigation by Novaya Gazeta 25:32 Versions of event 31:27 The first suspect 33:00 The premature arrests 34:30 The first trial 38:57 Natalia Estemirova and Chechnya 49:53 The secret witness 01:02:58 The testimony of the secret witness 01:06:45 The killer was turned in 01:08:00 The second trial 01:10:21 Questions without answers 01:16:30 The tried 01:22:15 The results of the investigationя 01:30:55 Beyond the confines of the case 01:34:23 The last chance 01:36:53 The permission to commit murder We would like to apologize for the following mistakes in the film. 1) Issues with the dates. Corrections: – The interrogation conducted of the witness Oleg Golubovitch by the lawyer Anna Stavitskaya took place on May 23, 2010, in Simferopol (1:03:16) – The interrogation conducted of the witness Oleg Golubovitch by the investigator Petros Garibyan took place on June 9, 2011, in Kyiv (1:04:16) 2) In the following schemes (59:27 и 1:08:08) Pavel Ryaguzon is presented in the lineup of the performers. During the second trial he was not among the suspects or the accused. Production team: Authors Anna Artemeva Vlad Dokshin Anna Pindyurina Sergei Sokolov Director Anna Artemeva Film editor Kirill Sakharnov Operators Vlad Dokshin Gleb Limanskiy Oleg Mamonov Roman Stepanovitch Composer Andrei Novokhat’ko Computer graphics Alexander Lavrenov Anna Zhavoronkova Maxim Loginov Archival work specialist Rinat Nevlyutov Translation Anna Muratova Artist Anna Zhavoronkova Photo editors Anna Zhavoronkova Alexei Komarov Lawyer Ekaterina Sedova Executive producer Pavel Kanygin General producer Dmitry Muratov Clips from Marina Goldovskaya’s “The Bitter Taste of Freedom” and archival footage by the TV “Rain”* were used in this movie. Considered by the Russian government as a foreign agent If you enjoyed the movie, please, share it with your friends through social media and support Novaya Gazeta with a donation: https://bit.ly/3t4q52F (https://bit.ly/HelpToNovaya)