俄罗斯总检查长切卡将军主持对于波利特科夫卡娅谋杀案的调查工作，就像他在科兹洛夫谋杀案中所做的那样，并不能让人们像在真正的民主国家中那样对于这种有高层参与的行为会产生希望。
The fact that Russia’s Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, took over the investigation into Politkovskaya’s killing, as he did with the murder of Kozlov, doesn’t inspire hope, as such senior level involvement would in any real democracy.