The assassination of Anna Politkovskaya

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They got her at last, said Moscow’s Novaya Gazeta in an editorial. Anna Politkovskaya, the most courageous investigative reporter in Russia, was gunned down in a professional hit at her apartment last week. Our “Anya” was preparing one of her meticulously documented exposés, this one on torture in the Russian province of Chechnya, for publication in this newspaper. In her last interview, with Radio Liberty just before her murder, Anya said she had evidence of “bodies that had been horribly tortured” in prisons run by Ramzan Kadyrov, the brutal warlord whom President Vladimir Putin installed as Chechen prime minister. She knew she was a target of those in power. Our “beautiful, courageous Anya” was often threatened. But she was never intimidated and never compromised her reporting. And we, her colleagues and friends, will never stop hunting for her murderers.

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