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Notícies :: corrupció i poder : mitjans i manipulació |
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Terrorisme d´Estat
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per Cambrilenc |
07 oct 2006
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Journalist Critical of Chechen War Is Shot Dead
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By C. J. CHIVERS
Published: October 8, 2006
MOSCOW, Oct. 7 — Anna Politkovskaya, the veteran Russian journalist and author who made her name as a searing critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya, was found dead on Saturday in her apartment building, shot in the head with a pistol, the authorities and her colleagues said.
Ms. Politkovskaya, 48, was a journalist with few equals in Russia. She was a special correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper and had become one of the country’s most prominent human rights advocates.
In recent years, as the Russian news media faced intensifying pressure under the administration of President Vladimir V. Putin, she maintained her outspoken stance. And she became an international figure who often spoke abroad about a war she called “state versus group terrorism.�
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/world/europe/08russia.html?hp&ex=11602 |
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