A second memorial plaque was destroyed on Politkovskaya's house in one day.

A temporary memorial plaque installed the day before to replace a broken plaque on the house where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered was destroyed. Representatives of a far-right organization designated as terrorist claimed involvement in the destruction of the first plaque. A plaque from the "Last Address" project on the same house was also destroyed.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on January 18, unknown individuals smashed a memorial plaque on the house where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. The journalist's children and the editorial board of Novaya Gazeta have demanded that a criminal investigation be opened. On the same day, the Moscow branch of the Civil Initiative party installed a temporary memorial plaque.

Temporary A memorial plaque for journalist Anna Politkovskaya was also torn down. It hung on her house for less than a day, according to the Telegram channel "Ostorozhno, Novosti."

According to the video attached to the publication, flowers brought by activists were also scattered near the journalist's entrance.

Responsibility for the destruction of the first plaque was claimed by representatives of the neo-Nazi group NSWP, which is designated as a terrorist group in Russia, the publication states.

Journalist Sergei Parkhomenko* reported that a plaque from the "Last Address" project, dedicated to the memory of the victims of Stalin's repressions, was also destroyed on Politkovskaya's house on Lesnaya Street in Moscow.

"A memorial plaque bearing the name of Solomon Abramovich Ryabenky, a renowned Soviet chemist and organizer of chemical production, and director of the Khim-2 scientific institute, was installed on the same wall in June 2017. He was executed on trumped-up charges of "espionage" in 1938, and fully rehabilitated in 1957. Below is a photograph of the façade of this building, where both the plaque and the memorial plaque are visible. This plaque was also brutally torn off yesterday. The original metal one had been ripped out many months ago. Volunteers had repeatedly installed cardboard duplicates in this spot. Now it's been torn off again. The same people were responsible. "More precisely, I suspect that they came for this plaque, just as they systematically break all such plaques in the area, and at the same time smashed the glass memorial plaque to Anna Politkovskaya," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

As a reminder, Anna Politkovskaya gave her last interview to a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent an hour and a half before her death. In this interview, the journalist commented on Ramzan Kadyrov's career prospects. 1

"Caucasian Knot" publishes materials dedicated to Politkovskaya on the thematic page "Politkovskaya and Estemirova", which also publishes materials about her friend Anna, journalist and human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, who was killed in 2009 and also worked on the problems of the residents of Chechnya.

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