The mood was dour at a small ceremony on July 15 in Moscow marking the one-year anniversary of the death of Natalya Estemirova, the human rights activist whose abduction and murder in Chechnya last year shocked the world. It was a gathering of friends, journalists, academics, and colleagues from Memorial, the human rights organization that Estemirova used to lead — a small group of people, all of whom were pessimistic about the way forward. Twelve months after her death, Estemirova’s murderers still have not been brought to justice, and the continued persecution of and attacks against activists working in Chechnya […]