Anna Politkovskaya
Matters of Fact
Chris & Don: A Love Story (Zeitgeist) My Winnipeg (IFC) 19th Annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival In 1964 Christopher Isherwood published A Single Man, a novel about a homosexual man and his state of spirit after his lover dies. Now comes Chris & Don, a documentary film about Isherwood's lover and his state of spirit since Chris's death. The subtitle of the film is "A Love Story." The picture makes the worn term fresh, moving. READ MORE >>
Pravda on the Potomac
Crime And Punishment
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary in the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's most active journalists in documenting the country's widespread bureaucratic corruption and human rights abuses in Chechnya. Today, the Times reports that the newspaper where she once worked, Novaya Gazeta, ran a special edition of the paper with the news that the editors and Russian prosecutors knew the identity of her assassin, though he had not yet been arrested. READ MORE >>
