Known to many as 'Russia's lost moral conscience', Anna Politkovskaya was a special correspondent for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta and the recipient of many honours for her writing. She is the author of A Dirty War, Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary. Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow in October 2006.
Terrifying... Intense... Breathtaking Jon Snow An impressive testimony to the most courageous form of journalism- dedicated to unearthing inconvenient facts and making uncomfortable arguments Financial Times We will continue to read her and learn from her for years -- Salman Rushdie Anna Politkovskaya refused to lie, in her work; her murder is a ghastly act, and an attack on world literature -- Nadine Gordimer Her death is a grave crime against the country, against all of us -- Mikhail Gorbachev