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...daily repetition that keeps the story going.” IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen moderated the 90-minute-long debate, which some members of the audience later called startlingly well-mannered. “I was surprised at the degree to which they agreed,” said Anna Bell T. Farrar, a second-year KSG student. “It was a lively, entertaining, funny debate...
...media as a powerful weapon, to be purchased, coerced, or driven out. Partly spawned by the Chechen conflict, the government has been using proxies like its oil behemoth, Gazprom, to acquire media outlets for years. Examples of this include the NPV television network and Izvestia, a leading newspaper. Anna wrote for the Novaya Gazeta, which is one of the last bastions of dissent in Putin’s Russia, partly owned by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev...
Uncompromising, Anna was truthful to both sides. She wrote about under-armed and underfed Russian conscripts and about ailing Chechen civilians. She wrote about Chechens terrorizing Russian populations and Russian torture camps for irregular guerrilla fighters. No wonder passionate fan mail vied with vivid death threats in her letterbox...
...Anna heavily criticized Muslim extremism, but she also dug up cases of Russian intelligence services falsely incriminating innocent civilians in the war zone. Her dissent sought to convince Russians their freedoms were the worst victim of the Chechen...
Paradoxically, the writer and her subject were doomed to the same fate: Anna became Chechnya. In the outskirts of the public sphere, silence still reigns autocratic and unchallenged...