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. Still unknown to prosecutors is who ordered the killing. President Vladimir Putin and prosecutor-general Yuri Chaika have both made dubious claims that Politkovskaya's murder was ordered by foreign agents trying to make Russia look bad; Alexander Litvinenko, on the other hand, accused Putin of personally ordering Politkovskaya's death shortly before he died of polonium-210 radiation poisoning last year. An FSB officer was accused of providing Politkovskaya's address to the assassin in August, but he was released and later re-arrested on unrelated charges. For his part, Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov has said that he doesn't believe that Putin personally ordered Politkovskaya's murder. Politkovskaya is one of 14 journalists killed since the start of Putin's presidency. None of their killers have been brought to justice. --Marin Cogan