A Russian Diary
  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099523451
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99

A Russian Diary

With a Foreword by Jon Snow

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A collection of writings on recent Russian politics, focusing on Vladimir Putin's government and the 2003 parliamentary elections, by one of the greatest and bravest journalists of our time.

A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late 2005, A Russian Diary is an unflinching record of the plight of millions of Russians and a pitiless report on the cynicism and corruption of Vladimir Putin's Presidency.
  • Published: 2 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099523451
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Anna Politkovskaya

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.

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Praise for A Russian Diary

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

Nadine Gordimer

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

Salman Rushdie

It is a blow to the entire democratic, independent press. It is a grave crime against the country, against all of us

Mikhail Gorbachev

Beyond mourning her, it would be more seemly to remember her by taking note of what she wrote

James Meek

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

Completely honest and fearless

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