The man who smashed a memorial plaque on Politkovskaya's house was fined 1,000 rubles.

A Moscow court fined Alexander Filippov one thousand rubles, ruling that the destruction of a memorial plaque on the building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered constituted petty hooliganism.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on January 18, vandals smashed a memorial plaque bearing her name on Lesnaya Street in Moscow, the building where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. Activists from the "Civil Initiative" movement replaced the plaque with a temporary one, but it was also destroyed on January 19. Representatives of a far-right organization designated as terrorist claimed involvement in the destruction of the first memorial plaque.

The man who smashed the memorial plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's house has been fined, the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction reported today on its Telegram channel. Moscow.

"The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow found Alexander Sergeevich Filippov guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation and sentenced him to an administrative fine of 1,000 rubles," the publication states.

As a reminder, Anna Politkovskaya, known for her articles on the war and human rights violations in Chechnya, was murdered in Moscow on October 7, 2006. The court found that Lom-Ali Gaitukayev organized the murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Rustam Makhmudov has been identified as the direct perpetrator, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya".

In 2025, on the 19th anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya's murder, residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg brought flowers to her grave, the Novaya Gazeta office, and the memorial to the victims of repression. Some of those convicted in her murder have already been released, but the mastermind behind the murder has not yet been convicted, Politkovskaya's colleagues recalled.

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

On the fifth anniversary of Politkovskaya's murder, journalists and human rights activists at a rally in Tbilisi highlighted her contribution to the fight for freedom of speech, demanding that those who ordered her murder be identified.

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