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Author: Anna Politkovskaya ,
Jon Snow
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.235kg
ISBN: 9780099523451
ISBN 10: 0099523450
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 03 April 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: Russian
Reviews
Suppression of freedom of speech, of expression, reaches its savage ultimate in the murder of a writer. Anna Politkovskaya refused to lie in her work; her murder is a ghastly act, and an attack on world literature. <br>-Nadine Gordimer <br> Like all great investigative reporters, Anna Politkovskaya brought forward human truths that rewrote the official story. We will continue to read her, and learn from her, for years. <br>-Salman Rushdie <br> It is a blow to the entire democratic, independent press. It is a grave crime against the country, against all of us. <br>-Mikhail Gorbachev
Passionate... Devastating... Powerful * Guardian * Politkovskaya is a Solzhenitsyn for the 21st century... Very few were telling a similar truth in her lifetime and even fewer will tell it now that she is dead * Observer * Politkovskaya gives an account of life as it is lived under Putin, fearlessly detailing the chaos and corruption she saw around her * Independent on Sunday * Brilliant... she reminds us what journalism can be * Herald * This is her testimony... it makes for impressive and immediate reading * Independent *
Author Information
Anna Politkovskaya (Author) 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 honours for her writing. She is the author of A Dirty War, Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary, and a collection of works, Nothing But the Truth. Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow in October 2006. Jon Snow (Introducer) One of the nation's pre-eminent broadcasters, Jon Snow was the face of Channel 4 News from 1989 to 2021. In that time, he has reported in dozens of countries, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Barack Obama's inauguration, interviewing countless world leaders including Ronald Reagan, Idi Amin, Tony Blair, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Nelson Mandela, as well as cultural icons from Malala Yousafzai to Marcus Rashford. His many awards include a BAFTA fellowship, the Richard Dimbleby BAFTA award for Best Factual Contribution to Television (2005), and Royal Television Society awards for Journalist of the Year (2005 & 2006) and Presenter of the Year (2009 & 2010 and 2012). He collected the BAFTA award for news coverage for the 2011 Channel 4 News' coverage of the Japanese tsunami, and delivered the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at Edinburgh's International Television Festival in 2017. He is the author of two books, Shooting History and The State of Us.
