It should be noted that Anna Politkovskaya did not "only" criticize Putin personally. She covered all of the Russian elite and the Chechen war in her reporting. She knew how all of the Russian ruling class was tied together, how Putin had risen to power and how they were undermining democracy and freedom.
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Yes, she did an exceptional work. In 2004, she published her book 'Putin's Russia', and a year ago the French newspaper 'Le Monde' published an extract for those interested.
She actually lived long. Say, Alexander Lebed' died in a helicopter crash in 2002, and Galina Starovoytova was killed in 1998, and similarly bad things (or just their marginalization and presentation as nutjobs by mass media, like with Novodvorskaya and Stomakhin) happened to most of people with actual political potential and spine from the Russian 90s.
This will be lit when the Tankies show up.
Nah, they usually avoid this sort of topics, which are too indefensible. At best they might throw some whataboutism around (Snowden, Assange?).
I always wonder how it's possible to get so many people to do shitty things like this when they know i5s morally wrong. I suppose you just need a handful of people with no morals.
Lucy Kassa, whose unwavering commitment to speak truth to power and expose the mass rape of women in Tigray and the killing of civilians, has made her a target for those who want to silence journalists and rule Ethiopia by the force of the gun.