Slain Russian journalist kept eye on Chechnya

Russia's most outspoken opposition journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, was murdered Saturday, alarming not only her colleagues in the media but also the country's dwindling human rights community.
"No one has any idea who exactly killed her, or why. But I feel all that's going on [in Russia] these days is fascism," says Alla Gerber, head of the independent Holocaust Foundation.
Ms. Politkovskaya, a mother of two, was the 13th Russian journalist to be targeted in a contract-style murder since President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York.

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