Outspoken Putin critic shot dead in Moscow - washingtonpost.com
A free press is the last bulwark against tyranny. It seems to have crumbled in Russia.
MOSCOW, Oct. 7 -- Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist whose byline defined the fading craft of investigative and crusading reporting in President Vladimir Putin's Russia, was fatally gunned down Saturday in the lobby of her apartment building in central Moscow.
Anna Politkovskaya should be remembered as an inspiration to us all.