A memorial plaque dedicated to murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been vandalized in Moscow for the seventh time. A foam board plaque was stolen from the facade of a building on Lesnaya Street, and a photograph of Politkovskaya was also stolen.
The first vandalism occurred on January 18, when a plaque bearing the inscription "Anna Politkovskaya lived in this building and was vilely murdered on October 7, 2006" was smashed. The neo-Nazi group NS/WP claimed responsibility. A week ago, a local resident confessed to destroying the temporary wooden plaque, claiming that the Politkovskaya memorial "always bothered" her.
The plaque was installed near the entrance to the building on Lesnaya Street where Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on October 7, 2006, for her journalistic and human rights work. She wrote about human rights violations in Chechnya and criticized the Russian authorities. The perpetrators of the journalist's murder were convicted, but those who masterminded the crime were never identified.
