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Published by Harvill Secker, 2007, hardcover, 322 pages, condition; as new.

A devastating account of contemporary Russia by a great and brave writer.

A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. It covers the period from the Russian elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late 2005. The book is an unflinching record of the plight of millions of Russians and a pitiless report on the cynicism and corruption of Vladimir Putins presidency.

She interviews people whose lives have been devastated by Putins policies, including the mothers of children who died in the Beslan siege, those of Russian soldiers maimed in Chechnya then abandoned by the State, and of disappeared young men and women. Elsewhere she meets traumatized and dangerous veterans of the Chechen wars, and a notorious Chechen warlord in his fortified lair. Putin is re-elected as President in farcically undemocratic circumstances and yet Western leaders, reliant on Russias oil and gas reserves, continue to pay him homage. Politkovskaya offers a chilling account of his dismantling of the democratic reforms made in the 1990s. She also criticizes the inability of liberals and democrats to provide a united, effective opposition and a population slow to protest against government legislative outrages.

A Russian Diary is clear-sighted, passionate and marked with the humanity that made Anna Politkovskaya known to many as Russias lost moral conscience and a heroine to readers throughout the world. I feel like I have a much better understanding of what is happening in modern day Russian politics having read this book. Putin is calling the shots and stifling both political opposition and a free press. Generally speaking, the Russian people are relatively apathetic for two reasons: fear of the current regime combined with the fact that many of them are economically better off than they were in earlier times.

The irony: Putin seems to be building a fairly right leaning, facist state while the loudest voice of opposition to his taking away of individual freedoms is the communist party.Anna Politkovskaya could have taken a high paying job in some Washington think tank - but she chose to stay in Russia and work to expose the injustices happening there. She paid with her life......She wasn't bitter that the West turned/is turning a blind eye to the lack of freedom in Russia, rather she felt that until the Russian people stand up for their rights, this injustice will continue.I was very surprised to learn how the Russian military mistreats its conscripts. When one finds oneself in the Russian military, one becomes a non-person and forfeit what little rights one ever enjoyed. Horror stories abound.......Excellent commentary on the Beslan school seige and how the Russian govt and military completely bungled the rescue. Despite the facts, they consider themselves modern day heroes. Chechnya is sadder still.

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