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Anna Politkovskaya
Reporting on the Chechen war and abuses of power in Russia.
A Dirty War · A Small Corner of Hell
- Born
- 30 August 1958
- Birthplace
- New York City, United States
- Died
- 7 October 2006
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Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian investigative journalist whose work documented civilian suffering and challenged official accounts of the war in Chechnya.
Early life
Diplomatic family
Was born in New York to Soviet diplomats.
Journalism studies
Graduated from Moscow State University.
Career
- 1980s–1990s
Newspaper work
Built a reporting career in Moscow.
- 1999
Novaya Gazeta
Joined the newspaper and developed her Chechnya reporting.
- 2000s
International readership
Published books and received journalism awards.
Books & reporting
A Dirty War
Collected accounts of the conflict in Chechnya.
A Small Corner of Hell
Examined life under war and repression.
Putin’s Russia
Criticised the direction of Russian political life.
Beyond work
Threats
Faced detention and intimidation while reporting.
Killing
Was murdered in Moscow in 2006; the identity of whoever commissioned the killing has remained unresolved.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Photo: Blaues Sofa. CC BY 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
