"Who killed her?" A memorial meeting marking the 40th day after Anna Politkovskaya's murder
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Politkovskaya's Killers May Be Found through Letter
A new theory about Novaya gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya's murder emerged yesterday. Leader of the movement For Human Rights Lev Ponomarev has received a letter implying that Movladi Baisarov's Highlander special division, FSB agents and Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov were involved in her killing. At Novaya gazeta, they think that the writers of the letter have sent investigators on a wild goose chase.
Ponomarev told Kommersant that the letter was received at the electronic address of his organization, and he forwarded it to Novaya gazeta and other media outlets. The letter is allegedly written by former members of the Highlander division – Timur from the village of Kirov, Aslambek from the Lenin state farm, Imran Kurkaev, Adam “the Dentist” and Roman Karnukaev from Samashek. They say that Kadyrov suspected Baisarov's brother, who was assassinated, of being involved in the killing of his father, president of Chechnya Akhmat Kadyrov. Therefore, Ramzan Kadyrov distanced himself from Baisarov, although some of his fighters defected to Kadyrov. They committed Politkovskaya's murder, the letter says, after being shown her apartment building by an FSB officer named Dranets. After they returned to Chechnya, they were killed as well, and their bodies burned. After that, Basiarov, who knew about the operation, was killed.
Journalists at Novaya gazeta did not consider the letter news. “Other members of the staff and I received similar letters several times,” said the newspaper's military reviewer Vyacheslav Izmailov. “Their authors have accused Baisarov, Kadyrov and even Boris Berezovsky. I am familiar with the text of the letter received by Lev Ponomarev. In my opinion that information has nothing to do with the truth.” The text of the letter can be found at the Chechen separatist website kavkaz.tv. The press service of the president of Chechnya called the letter “nonsense” and refused to comment further.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 28, 2007
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