Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, author and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and the Russian President Valdimir Putin.
Politkovskaya worked for Izvestia from 1982 to 1993 and as a reporter, editor of emergencies/accidents section, and assistant chief editor of Obshchaya Gazete led by Yegor Yakovlev. From 1999 to 2006 she wrote columns for the biweekly Novaya Gazeta. Seh published several avard-winning books about Chechnya, life in Russia, and President Putin’s regime.
While attending a conference on the freedom of press organized by Reporters Without Borders in Vienna in December 2005, Politkovskaya said: “People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think”.
She was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building on 7 October 2006 and one year later, she vas awarded by UNESCO with Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, awarwed posthumously for the first time.
Politkovskaya worked for Izvestia from 1982 to 1993 and as a reporter, editor of emergencies/accidents section, and assistant chief editor of Obshchaya Gazete led by Yegor Yakovlev. From 1999 to 2006 she wrote columns for the biweekly Novaya Gazeta. Seh published several avard-winning books about Chechnya, life in Russia, and President Putin’s regime.
While attending a conference on the freedom of press organized by Reporters Without Borders in Vienna in December 2005, Politkovskaya said: “People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think”.
She was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building on 7 October 2006 and one year later, she vas awarded by UNESCO with Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, awarwed posthumously for the first time.
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