From: Alla Aleksandrovna

Location: Russia

Date: 5th October 2007

Hello! I’ve prepared an address to Anna Politkovskaya: “Anna! I have never called or written to you. Have only read you. I am calling now. It has been a year since you are gone. Your murderers haven’t been found. It’s a shame to us, the slavish society, that allows spitting upon itself! But there is the minority that resists despite the pressure of authorities and dirty pasquinade to its address from Prokhanovs, Leontievs, Mamontovs and other. Congratulations with your grand daughter birth, Anna!” Thank you. It is so painful!

From: Lyudmila Alekseevna Shutikova

Location: Dubna, Russia

Date: 5th October 2007

I’m from Dubna. I came to visit my son. Having read the newspaper I decided to give a call. I just want to express my thanks to Anna for her labour, her work, for her being like she was. Because Moscow now is very different from it used to be some time ago, in my youth. Now I’m disappointed seeing only lies around… It’s such a pity that Anna Politkovskaya is gone, that such people leave so early. They could do even more if they did it together. But there is nothing we can do now. All the best!

From: Vera Vasilyevna

Location: Russia

Date: 5th October 2007

I wasn’t acquainted with Politkovskaya, but reading her and seeing her on TV I felt so much respect to her, I felt that the woman lived for the sake of a holy cause. Not in the meaning of religion, but for the sake of a human holy cause. I have only to recall and think (crying), …who will now work hard to wipe out all these lies and human meanness. Where are you, the journalists that boast of their posts? Boast of TV channels they work at! You write about what you see, but not about what is happening behind the curtains. When my mood is bad, I always think about Politkovskaya. All the best!

From: Nora Ivanovna Osipova (pensioner)

Location: Russia

Date: 5th October 2007

Good afternoon! I’ve always respected Anna. Cherished memory of her! I wish we had more such people in our country!

From: Viktor Nikitovich (75 years old)

Location: Russia

Date: 5th October 2007

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Anna for her work of a great importance. It will be a year soon, and everything is quiet already, everybody is silent and there is no information, no new announcements. Everything is quiet and peaceful. And she not only risked her life, but also threw light on certain events in Chechnya, in other regions, the events that are now not illuminated by anyone. Thanks a million to her for that! Good bye.

From: Olga Shamfarova

Location: Russia

Date: 5th October 2007

Dear Anya! We have met each other on various meetings and demonstrations. Besides that we also met on a sad occasion – on a funeral of Galya Kovalskaya– the only journalist who worked as you in danger spots of Caucasus and was also writing humanistic stories. A lot of people came to Galya’s funeral, because she was well-known and people were shaken with her death. But you were almost the only person who came to Galya’s mother and told her the words she needed to hear. For that I am grateful to you not less, than for your outstanding stories in Novaya Gazeta.

From: Anatoly Volobuev

Location: Russia

Date: 5th October 2007

Anechka! Someday after 100 years in history of journalism they will write that you were killed by the power, which has no understanding of honor and conscience. But names of representatives of that power (putins, luzhkovs, kadyrovs and others) will be forgotten and just called a «criminal gang». The world goes on because of people like you. I pray for your soul to rest in peace.

From: Anatoliy Fyodorovich Petrov (bureau member of Yabloko party regional department)

Location: Russia

Date: 5th October 2007

On October 7th we are organizing a picket in the memory of Anna Politkovskaya. I understand that it is very sad, even dramatic event for all those who think of themselves as democrats, but what happened can not be changed. Thank you for what you’ve done in your last issue, that you gave a possibility to call this number… I think that every conscious person understands what makes a country, a society. I think that people should call this number and say how they personally felt about Anna Politkovskaya whose stories they’ve red in your newspaper, and how they feel about your newspaper which maintains its current attitude. In short, you have done a good thing for making this phone call possible. At that day, when we will go out to our picket, we will speak about what she did not have time to finish and what she was able to finish for Russia. It’s Putin, who thinks that only few people knew her. Many people knew her! And if she will become a Nobel prize winner, I think that many people will be happy, at least those who think of themselves as democrats. Thank you that I was able to call. Good bye.

From: Nikolay

Location: Russia

Date: 5th October 2007

Good Day! I am a rather old man already, I’ve lived through the most part of my life, almost 60 years. I simply read the issue and decided to call. But I don’t know what to say. Indeed, people like Anya are very rare; unfortunately, there’re not many people of that kind nowadays. I don’t know her personally, I have never met her or called her, but I simply think that people with a heightened sense of justice are needed everywhere, especially in our country. I don’t know what more there’s to add. I always read "Novaya", I always look forward to receiving its newest issue, and I always feel sorry when the shop runs out of it. Your newspaper is the only one for me, I love it for the truth. And what else could I love it for, but the truth? I guess that without it, and without "Ekho Moskvy", it would’ve been boring to live. The tragedy of our country is the indifference of the majority of its population.

From: Natalya Pavlovna Popoval

Location: Russia

Date: 5th November 2007

I’ve become a subscriber to your newspaper about five years ago. I’m a retiree, I’ve spent almost my whole life working in the "defense". I’m also a soldier's widow. Your newspaper is simply wonderful. With its help one can at least keep up with the pulse of life and understand what’s happening around us. As far as Anna is concerned, here’s what I want to say: I’ve once been in indirect contact with the journalist community, and I’ve heard something from your community about her. I was impressed. People told me: "Well, you, she’s out of her mind already. She thinks that somebody’s made an attempt at her life, tried to poison her, she’s written all those articles of hers”. Now I say to these people: "You are alive, and she was murdered." As for the reaction of our government, Mr. Putin’s response does not surprise me. This man will bring no good to Russia. Thank you for your newspaper. I’ve agitated all my fellow retirees, and they are beginning to understand. Only I still don’t know for whom to vote. Thank you for a good newspaper.