'My notes are written for the future. They are the testimony of the innocent victims of the new Chechen war, which is why I record all the detail I can' - Anna Politkovskaya
Known to many as 'Russia's lost moral conscience', Anna Politkovskaya was a special correspondent for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta and the recipient of many honours for her writing. She is the author of Putin's Russia, A Russian Diary and Nothing But the Truth, collected reportage. Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow in October 2006.
If you haven't done so yet, read Politkovskaya's books: A Dirty War
and Putin's Russia
*Independent*
Read this book to discover the true nature of the Russian state
under Putin, a state where corruption, torture and murder are
franchised out to his friends and the friends of his friends... Its
assault on the Russian state is electrifying
*Observer*
Politkovskaya chronicles the deathly thud of the Russian war
machine and the anguished cries of those crushed in its
tread...[She] was awarded Amnesty's prestigious Global award for
human-rights journalism. Maybe there is yet hope that the truth
will out
*Guardian*
One of the most respected and feared journalists in the
world...Despite death threats, she defied state intimidation with
dispatches that investigated the true nature of the Russian
occupation and documented atrocities against the Chechen people
*Daily Telegraph*
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