Novaya Gazeta reporters get death threats

Two reporters at Novaya Gazeta received death threats last week, editors said Monday. In a statement posted on its website, the paper’s editors said the threats were made Friday to two unidentified employees in connection with an article about problems in the North Caucasus and another article about the recent murder of the newspaper’s most prominent reporter Anna Politkovskaya. One of the reporters also received a threatening text message. Novaya Gazeta has specialised in investigative reporting, especially in the area of government corruption, and has been highly critical of the Kremlin’s policies in Chechnya and other restive southern regions. Politkovskaya was gunned down in her Moscow apartment building in an apparent contract killing on October 7. She had exposed killings, torture and other abuses against civilians in Chechnya. Former spy and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London last week, told police he believed he was poisoned while investigating the slaying of Politkovskaya. (The Moscow Times,November 28, 2006)

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