Paris House of journalists may be named after Anna Politkovskaya
Paris city administration proposed to name Paris La Maison des journalistes (MDJ — the House of journalists) after Anna Politkovskaya. The proposal should be submitted for parliamentary discussion in the near future, Liberty Radio informs.
The MDJ opened in December 2003. Its main aim is to shelter foreign journalists forced to flee from their country and applied for asylum in France.
As REGNUM informed earlier, Novaya Gazeta newspaper columnist Anna Politkovskaya was found shot dead on October 7 in a lift in her Moscow apartment block. Circumstances of the accident prove that it was a contracted murder. Russian General Prosecutor Yuri Chaika took investigation of Politkovskaya’s murder under his personal control.
12:31 10/26/2006
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