Anna Politkovskaya, a courageous investigative journalist, inspired both awe and fear as she exposed Russian authorities' wrongdoings. As the only voice for Chechen War victims, her loud and lonely cry for justice was silenced at age 48, a brutal assassination for simply doing her job.
A Bitter Taste of Freedom
A courageous journalist for Moscow's Novaya Gazeta, Anna Politkovskaya, risked everything to expose Russian authorities' wrongdoings, earning both admiration and intimidation as the leading voice of dissent.