Russian journalist shot dead
Updated on 07 October 2006
Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken Putin critic, has been found dead in Moscow.
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The Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been shot dead in the lift of her apartment in central Moscow.
Politkovskaya was an outspoken critic of the war in Chechnya, where she exposed human rights abuses by Russian troops.
In 2002 she acted as a negotiator with the Chechen rebels during the Moscow theatre siege.
Two years later she was prevented from reporting on the Beslan school siege after being taken ill with food poisoning.
