Dissident Vox investigates the life and work of the Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovkskaya, who was brutally murdered on the 7th October, by an unknown assassin, in the lift of the Moscow apartment building where she lived. He also takes a look behind the veil of Vladamir Putin's Russia, and digs out some biographical background on the current Russian President.

Intro
Russia's most famous nuisance
13 Dead Journalists
The Soviet Past
Gulag Kolyma
Putins Russia
The new rich & the old poor

Putin biography -
Youth
The KGB Years
The rise of the unexceptional man
President Putin

Music - Panacea -  'Sandoko Huro'

Anna Politkovskaya
The absolute Journalist
Death threats and poison tea
Chechnya
'A Small Corner of Hell' (Excerpt)
The Editor
The last interview
The last story
The Demonstration(s)
The Funeral
The reality

Music - Claire Fitch - 'After'

Additional Sources - 'Inside Putins Russia' (Andrew Jack)

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