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Politkovskaya 'predicted' Russia's turn under Putin, editor says on 20th anniversary of her death

A file image taken on October 7, 2009 of a woman placing flowers before a portrait of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow
A file image taken on October 7, 2009 of a woman placing flowers before a portrait of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow. © Pavel Golovkin, AP

Assassinated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya "predicted" Moscow's trajectory under President Vladimir Putin 20 years ago, her former editor said ahead of the anniversary of her death on Wednesday. Politkovskaya had reported on the war in Chechnya and Putin's rise before she was gunned down in her Moscow apartment block on October 7, 2006.

Assassinated Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead outside her Moscow home in 2006, had "predicted" Russia's trajectory under Putin, her editor said ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death.

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