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...circumstances soon changed that; Anna came to Chechnya...
...suggestion of the supremacy of Christianity. He stated that the results can be explained in part by church being an “anchor” in many people’s lives, which may lead to increased optimism and hope in their perspective and thus improve their health. Anna E. Reinert ’08, treasurer of the Secular Society, said the study can be interpreted favorably by either side of the religious spectrum, but interpretation “can be dangerous, as all cognitive neuroscience types of studies...
...Russian, podsnezhnik means “going under the snow.” But its true meaning has nothing to do with weather. According to a Russian friend, it’s an aphorism for being assassinated. Podsnezhnik was exactly what happened to renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya two weeks ago. And with four bullet shots, Russia’s long road to Western-style public discourse took another step backward...
...Anna was a great asset to Russia’s dwindling public sphere. Even her friends say she was not easy to bear, but harsh critics hardly are. Born in New York to Soviet diplomats from Ukraine, she decided to study in the motherland, graduating as a journalist from Moscow State University in 1980. Almost immediately, she focused on the disfranchised: the old, the poor, and refugees. She once declared she aimed at “reviving Russia’s pre-revolutionary tradition of writing about our social problems...
Amidst religious tensions, guerrilla warfare, and human rights violations, Anna was the only journalist unafraid of asking questions and writing answers. She brought the Russian military excesses to the Russian public sphere. Almost raped, almost deported, and almost killed several times, she reported summary executions, torture, and starvation. During the famous Moscow theatre kidnapping in 2002 that ended in tragedy, the Chechen terrorists only trusted Anna to mediate with the police authorities...