Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Politkovskaya would be a very unusual person in any country, but as things turn out she was an American Russian.

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One interesting thing about her murder.

Wikipedia says

"According to Russian state security officer Alexander Litvinenko, Politkovskaya asked him if her life was in imminent danger before the assassination."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya

The source footnote is

"[11] Ирина Хакамада о партийном строительстве и экономической ситуации в России (in Russian). Svoboda News. 4 December 2006. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 7 December 2006."

Most readers would assume it was a Russian based source, but it's actually a Ukrainian newspaper headquartered in New Jersey, U.S.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(newspaper)

Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on October 7, 2006.

Alexander Livinenko died November 23, 2006 after having been poisoned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko

It's pretty certain Anna Politkovskaya was murdered by gangsters acting on Russian nationalist motives, but the convoluted links make it seem all sides are hiding something.

The source article attribution is not only deceptive for using a U.S. based foreign language source, but the dating of the article reduces its credibility even further.

The Intercept published a top-secret document released by Edward Snowden with a screenshot of Intellipedia according to which

TS/REL TO (USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL) Russian Federal Intelligence Services (probably FSB) are known to have targeted the webmail account of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. On 5 December 2005, RFIS initiated an attack against the account annapolitovskaya@US Provider1, by deploying malicious software which is not available in the public domain. It is not known whether the attack is in any way associated with the death of the journalist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya

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https://edwardsnowden.com/2017/06/26/anna-politkovskaya/

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/anna-politkovskaya-intellipedia-redacted.pdf

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/top-secret-snowden-document-reveals-what-the-nsa-knew-about-previous-russian-hacking/

https://web.archive.org/web/20160603084943/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/death-of-a-journalist/362909.html

https://theintercept.com/document/2016/12/29/anna-politkovskaya -wiki/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10845323/Anna-Politkovskaya-journalist-murder-convicted-trial-court-Novaya-Gazeta.html

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/01/ten-journalists-were-just-killed-in-afghanistan-please-stfu-about-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-hacked-anna-politkovskayas-emails-before-her-murder

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/312112-snowden-document-shows-nsa-blames-hack-of-murdered-journalist-on

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton