JLIA (the son)
“We’ll fight. I am convinced we’ll succeed, because the whole world follows this case.”

VERA (the daughter)
“Unlike all the other relatives, I never said: Mama, don’t do it! That just wasn’t me.”

SAINAP (the Chechen friend)
“I never have the feeling that she has gone because I always feel her by my side.”

DMITRY MURATOW (the editor)
“What we have here is large-scale corruption within the security forces of the Russian Federation. They are in league with the criminal elements, with the murderers!”

YURI CHAIKA (the Prosecutor-General)
“The investigations have revealed that only people from outside the Russian Federation could have had any interest in eliminating Politkovskaya.”

BORIS BEREZOVSKY (the businessman)
“If we pick up anyone on the street, absolutely unknown – it’s not a problem to make him president of Russia, because Russian people are slaves.”

ANDREJ MIRONOW (the human-rights activist)
“She never hated anyone, even told me: ‘They accuse me of being against Putin, but I don’t care about Putin. I’m against what he does.’”

GARRI KASPAROW (the opposition leader)
“The final argument in a dictatorship is the bullet.”

ALEXANDER POLITKOVKSY (the ex-husband)
“It’s impossible to live on top of a volcano.”