Quotes of the Day

People attach flowers to a portrait of killed journalist Anna Politkovskaya, marking what would have been Politkovskaya's 49th birthday on August 30, 2007 in Moscow, Russia.
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008

Open quoteThis is a disgraceful, secret, backroom decision, which will prevent society from getting acquainted with how the case is built.Close quote

  • DMITRY MURATOV,
  • editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper where slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya worked, on plans to hold her murder trial in secret
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