A Russian Diary

Passionate... Devastating... Powerful * Guardian *
Politkovskaya is a Solzhenitsyn for the 21st century... Very few were telling a similar truth in her lifetime and even fewer will tell it now that she is dead * Observer *
Politkovskaya gives an account of life as it is lived under Putin, fearlessly detailing the chaos and corruption she saw around her * Independent on Sunday *
Brilliant... she reminds us what journalism can be * Herald *
This is her testimony... it makes for impressive and immediate reading * Independent *
Completely honest and fearless * Literary Review *
Suppression of freedom of speech, of expression, reaches its savage ultimate in the murder of a writer. Anna Politkovskaya refused to lie, in her work; her murder is a ghastly act, and an attack on world literature -- Nadine Gordimer
Like all great investigative reporters, Anna Politkovskaya brought forward human truths that rewrote the official story. We will continue to read her, and learn from her, for years -- Salman Rushdie
Beyond mourning her, it would be more seemly to remember her by taking note of what she wrote -- James Meek
It is a blow to the entire democratic, independent press. It is a grave crime against the country, against all of us -- Mikhail Gorbachev