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Politkovskaya 'predicted' Russia's turn under Putin, editor says on 20th anniversary of her death

France 24 [en] · eastern europe

Assassinated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya "predicted" Moscow's trajectory under President Vladimir Putin 20 years ago, her former editor said ahead of the anniversary of her death on Wednesday. Politkovskaya had reported on the war in Chechnya and Putin's rise before she was gunned down in her Moscow apartment block on October 7, 2006.

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