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 honors for her writing. She is the
author of A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in
Chechnya, Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing
Democracy, and A Small Corner of Hell:
Dispatches from Chechnya. Anna
Politkovskaya was murdered in
Moscow in October 2006.