Anna Politkovskaya

A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption & Death in Putin's Russia (2007)

In trying to describe this book and the work of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the first thing that came to my mind was the words of poet Dylan Thomas. Watching Russia’s barely-worthy-of-the-term democracy steadily crumble, Politkovskaya stubbornly refused to let it go gentle into that go...