The fourth memorial plaque has been installed on Politkovskaya's house.

Activists have restored the memorial plaque on the Moscow building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered for the fourth time.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on January 18, vandals smashed a memorial plaque bearing her name on Lesnaya Street in Moscow, on the building where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. Activists from the "Civil Initiative" movement installed a temporary plaque in its place, but on January 19, it, too, was destroyed. Representatives of a far-right organization designated as terrorist claimed involvement in the destruction of the first plaque. The man who smashed a memorial plaque was fined 1,000 rubles, although he denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the plaque "fell and broke on its own." By January 22, activists had replaced the broken plaque again, but the temporary plaque had been destroyed for the third time, and a resident of Politkovskaya's building reported that the temporary plaques had been intentionally destroyed.

Another temporary plaque has been installed on the facade of the building at 8/12 Lesnaya Street in Moscow, where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered, the ZPCh Telegram channel reported.

The plaque, made of cardboard, a sheet of paper, and plastic film, is attached to the facade of the building below the site of a permanent memorial plaque that hung for many years. The text states that Anna Politkovskaya "lived and was vilely murdered" in this building. However, the date of the journalist's murder is misspelled—October 7, 2005 (instead of 2006), as revealed by published photographs.

This marks the fourth time the plaque has been restored. In the video, an activist explains to a woman that a plaque in memory of the journalist "can be hung" on the facade of a building as many times as necessary. "At any time, as often as they beat her, that's how many times you can broadcast," she says in the video published by RusNews.

In response to the woman's incoherent objections, the activist reminds her that the memorial plaque "was there for 20 years, but it was destroyed a week ago."

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 had orchestrated 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 the murder case have already been released, but the mastermind behind the assassination has not 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.

"Caucasian Knot" publishes materials dedicated to Politkovskaya on the thematic page "Politkovskaya and Estemirova," which also contains materials about Anna's friend, journalist and human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who was killed in 2009 and also worked on issues affecting Chechen residents.