Marco Setaccioli recalled that, twenty years earlier, Anna Politkovskaya had been shot and killed in the hallway of her home in Moscow. He claimed that Vladimir Putin had ordered her elimination on the day of his birthday and described her as a journalist, activist, and opponent who had denounced the crimes of the regime and the restrictions on freedoms. Setaccioli also cited a passage from *Putin's Russia* in which Politkovskaya attributed the responsibility for what was happening to the apathy and weak reactions of those who opposed Putin, arguing that they contributed to ensuring his impunity. He urged readers to compare the words of the journalist with those of politicians who, in his view, were ready to trade security for votes and claimed that Putin's Russia was not a danger. He urged them to ask themselves whether, with their "cowardice," they honored the memory of Politkovskaya or legitimized the world of violence, oppression, and death that, according to him, her murderer was building. #Putin #Apathy #Freedom (translated)
