MilleVanille... we are talking here about a JOURNALIST not about a POPSTAR!
She reported about a war that all Russia is ashamed of... The Chechen war, and it the Chechen war, there is a lot of inconvenient truth that Putin and his friends are willing to hide...
And according to Wikipedia she was rather famous and wellknown in the journalist world:
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* 2001: Prize of the Russian Union of Journalists
* 2001: Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism
* 2002: PEN American Center Freedom to Write Award
* 2002: International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award
* 2003: Lettre Ulysses Award
* 2003: Hermann Kesten Medal
* 2004: Olof Palme Prize (shared with Lyudmila Alekseyeva and Sergei Kovalev)
* 2005: Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media [6]
* 2006: International Journalism Award named after Tiziano Terzani
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It seems that Russia lost a great journalist...
Anna Politkovskaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia