International Security

Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative journalist, gets another day in court.

The NYT reports

There is no question whom she held responsible for the carnage [in Chechnya]: the Russian Army and Mr. Putin. On the day she was killed with four shots from a silenced pistol, she was about to deliver a major report to her newspaper on torture in Chechnya.

This isn’t a retrial of the men acquitted (none of whom was the shooter). The Russian court ordered investigators to start over. If nothing else, this keeps her story alive.