Anna Politkovskaya: A Journalist Silenced
- By RFE/RL
It's been 15 years since the murder of prominent Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya -- a tenacious investigative reporter who exposed the brutality of Russia's war in Chechnya, and documented how President Vladimir Putin was curtailing democracy in Russia. One of the subjects of her reporting on human rights abuses, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, is still in power and allegations of his involvement in murder and torture have continued.