The memorial plaque has disappeared again from Politkovskaya's house.

On January 18, vandals smashed a plaque bearing her name on Lesnaya Street in Moscow, the building where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered. Civil Initiative activists installed a temporary plaque to replace the one destroyed, but it was also destroyed on January 19. Representatives of a far-right organization, designated as terrorist, claimed responsibility for the destruction of the first plaque. The man who smashed the 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 the intentional destruction of the temporary plaques. A third temporary plaque was installed on the evening of January 23, and its disappearance was reported on January 24. That same day, activists restored it, installing a fourth temporary plaque, which disappeared this afternoon. Persistent attempts to destroy the plaque only bring the murder of Anna Politkovskaya back into the spotlight, her ex-husband emphasized.

Unknown individuals have destroyed for the sixth time the memorial plaque on the facade of the building on Lesnaya Street in Moscow where Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya lived and was murdered.

Anna Politkovskaya, known for her articles on the war and human rights violations in Chechnya, was killed in Moscow on October 7, 2006. The court found that Lom-Ali Gaitukayev organized the murder; 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".

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