Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Politkovskaya (Russian: Анна Политковская) is a Russian journalist well known for her opposition to the Putin administration. She studied journalism at the Moscow State University, graduating in 1980, and began her career with the Izvestia newspaper, now a staunchly pro-government publication owned by the Nickel oligarch Vladimir Potanin. Since June 1999, she has written columns for the online news publication Novaya Gazeta. She has on several occasions been involved in the aftermaths of bombings and terrorist acts, negotiating the release of hostages, and supporting the legal rights of victims' families. She alledges that during the Beslan school masacre, when she attempted to travel to the site to conduct negotiations with Aslan Maskhadov, she was poisoned on an aircraft by Russian security services (the FSB).

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