Twenty years on, Anna Politkovskaya is imprinted in many people’s minds as a courageous journalist who covered the second Chechnya war (1999–2009) during the first years of the unexpected ascension to power of a “a lieutenant colonel who never managed to reach the rank of colonel” (in her words), that is Vladimir Putin. Her coverageContinueContinue reading “A grim anniversary: twenty years since Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered”