Anna Politkovskaya
Anna PolitkovskayaAnna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist, was shot dead on October 7th, aged 48 SHE was brave beyond belief, reporting a gruesome war and a creeping dictatorship with a sharp pen and steel nerves. It may be a chilling coincidence that Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on Vladimir Putin's birthday, but her friends and supporters are in little doubt that her dogged, gloomy reporting
