Name: Anna Politkovskaya

Source: RFE/RL Russian Service (Interview 2 days before Anna's murder)

Date: 5th October 2006

"Right now I have two photographs on my desk. I am conducting an investigation about torture today in Kadyrov's prisons. These are people who were abducted by Kadyrovsty for completely inexplicable reasons and who died. These are bodies absolutely disfigured by torture."

Ramzan Kadyrov is the Moscow-backed Chechen prime minister, whose private security force, known as the "Kadyrovsty," is accused by human rights activists of kidnapping and torturing civilians.

Name: Vladimir Putin (President of Russia)

Source: News conference in Dresden (with German Chancellor Angela Merkel)

Date: 10th October 2006

"I think journalists should know - in any case, experts understand it perfectly well - that the degree of her influence over political life in Russia was extremely insignificant. She was well-known in journalistic circles, among human rights activists, in the West. I repeat, her influence over political life in Russian was minimal."

Name: Mikhail Gorbachev (former President)

Source: Interfax

Date: 8th October 2006

"It is a savage crime against a professional and serious journalist and a courageous woman. It is a blow to the entire democratic, independent press. It is a grave crime against the country, against all of us."

Name: Grigory Yavlinsky (Yabloko party)

Source: RFE/RL Russian Service

Date: 8th October 2006

"Her killing is an outrage and a tragedy. Anna Politkovskaya was a person who was No. 1 in political journalism. She was always in the most critical places. Her material uncovered the essence of everything taking place in Russian politics, and generally in Russian life. She was a person who could bring secrets out into the open. Her murder - the destruction of such a person - is a very symbolic event for Russia"

Name: Igor Yakovenko (General Secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists)

Source: RFE/RL

Date: 8th October 2006

"There's no doubt that this murder was tied to her professional work as a journalist. It's clearly a contract killing - that can be seen from the circumstances. The fact that the person was killed in the entryway of their apartment building, that the pistol was left at the scene of the crime - all that is the signature of a professional hired killer."

"If our journalists aren't able to unite around an independent journalistic investigation of this murder, then I have the feeling that after a certain period Russian journalism will simply vanish as a profession from our country."

Name: Reporters Without Borders (Paris)

Source: Reporters without Borders

Date: 8th October 2006

"Russia is a violent country and violent to journalists."

Name: Terry Davis (Secretary General of the Council of Europe)

Source: RFE/RL

Date: 8th October 2006

"This is terrible news. Obviously I'm very deeply shocked and concerned about what has happened. She was a woman of great personal courage, and she had an international reputation for honesty and independence in her work, in her reporting from places like Chechnya. And so she'll be very badly missed by all of us."

Name: Amina (from Serzhen-yurt, Chechnya)

Source: RFE/RL North Caucasus Service

Date: 10th October 2006

"All the villagers I speak to - even those who I thought were not at all interested in journalism and current affairs - are extremely upset. She was the only one to tell the truth about the horrors taking place in Chechnya. People are terribly upset. Obviously the authorities of this country don't like people who speak the truth and are capable of compassion for the humiliated. They kill the people's finest representatives. I can't tell you how upset I am. I have all her 'Novaya gazeta' articles. I kept her address and her telephone number, in case I needed to get in touch in a hopeless situation. She was my last hope. We are mourning."

Name: Lyudmila Alekseyeva (Russian human rights campaigner)

Source: Speaking at Anna's funeral

Date: 10th October 2006

"She spoke about Chechnya, first and foremost, everywhere. It was her constant theme and her constant pain. And you know, there isn't a person in Chechnya who does not revere Anna Politkovskaya. Everybody knows her there, and people photograph her with point-and-shoot cameras and then those pictures are placed on the walls of every house."

Name: Apti (Chechen man speaking in France)

Source: Memorial service in France

Date: 10th October 2006

"Like many Chechens, grief has stricken me many times lately. But when I heard that she'd been killed, my eyes filled with tears for the first time in my life. I know it's not decent for a man to cry. But I wasn't ashamed today. I would have been willing to give up the time given to me in order for her to live on. Over the past five or six years, only a handful of people in this huge country have covered the events in Chechnya. Anna was one of them. In my opinion, she died for us."

Name: Layla (Chechen woman living in Turkey)

Source: RFE/RL

Date: 10th October 2006

"She was always welcome in Chechnya. Our people, abandoned by all, needed her. Will someone come forward to replace her? I don't think so. People, journalists, have been so scared. There won't be anyone else like her now, ready to sacrifice her life. I'm so upset that it reminds me of what I felt when my two sons were killed. Was it more painful? I can't say."

Name: Jose Manuel Barroso (President of the European Commission)

Source: Reuters

Date: 15th October 2006

Moscow's credibility is on the line over its ability to prosecute those responsible for the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Sunday, Reuters reported. Barroso said he would raise the murder with President Vladimir Putin in person, adding he would be "frank" in his discussions. "We want those who have assassinated Mrs. Politkovskaya, a great fighter for freedom of expression, to be brought to justice," Barroso told BBC Television.

From: Osman Boliyev (Dagestani human rights activist)

Source: Moscow Times

Date: 16th October 2006

Osman Boliyev decribes in an article in the Moscow Times how Anna Politkovskaya had intervened to help him when he faced fabricated charges. Politkovskaya, an internationally recognized journalist who wrote impassioned articles about human rights abuses for Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was murdered Oct. 7 in the elevator of her apartment building. Prosecutors and Novaya Gazeta believe the killing resulted from Politkovskaya's professional activities. "By saving my life, Anna Politkovskaya gave up her own," Boliyev said. "Her death puts us one step closer to a totalitarian regime, to true dictatorship."

From: Nina Levurda (mother of soldier who died in Chechnya)

Source: Moscow Times

Date: 16th October 2006

Nina Levurda sobbed as she talked about Politkovskaya last week. Levurda sued the Defense Ministry when the army refused for six months to provide her with information about the death of her son, Lieutenant Pavel Levurda, in Chechnya. "I'm certain that I won the case thanks to her," said Levurda, a resident of Ivanovo. "She wrote an article about my son and how the trial was conducted improperly. She helped me out financially, too, and I'll remember that for the rest of my life -- that someone I saw for the first time was so gracious toward me."

From: Oleg Orlov (resigning as Kremlin adviser)

Source: Reuters

Date: 17th October 2006

A leading Russian human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov said on Tuesday he could no longer work as a Kremlin adviser because he disagreed with President Vladimir Putin's views on murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Putin said "Politkovskaya had minimal influence on Russian political life." Oleg Orlov, head of independent human rights group Memorial, said he had written to the chair of the Presidential Council on Promoting Civil Society and Human Rights to hand in his notice. "I wrote that I do not see any sense in remaining in the council," he said. "With regret I must note that my understanding of what is good for and what damages the Russian state ... is fundamentally different from that of the president."