It is ten years on October 7 since Anna Politkovskaya, bitter Kremlin critic and voice for its victims, was gunned down in the stairwell of her apartment block in Moscow. The journalist and human rights defender was murdered, coincidentally or not at all, on President Vladimir Putin’s birthday.
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A man holds a portrait of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya during a rally marking the anniversary of her death in Moscow on October 7, 2014. Politkovskaya was gunned down in Moscow in 2006. AFP
