Russian Journalist's Writing Lives Past Her Murder
In 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow. She was perhaps the most famous journalist in Russia, vividly reporting on the brutalities of the war in Chechnya and the intricacies of government corruption in a place where investigative reporters are vulnerable to imprisonment and attack. Host Scott Simon talks with Politkovskaya's sister, Elena Kudimova, about the final writings of her sister, which appear in the collection, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?