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  • 5/23/2025
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's brave crusade, fighting for an independent voice in Putin's Russia. | dG1fVDV5enZDaUJSYTQ
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00:00War has two sides.
00:08I say it has three.
00:10The innocent civilians caught in the middle of a medieval brutal war.
00:16Come on! Stay down!
00:22Did you know that the war between Russia and Chechnya
00:25is the longest ongoing conflict in the world?
00:28They don't think we need a war correspondent in Chechnya.
00:32We need a people correspondent.
00:36If you really want to report the truth,
00:38I'll show you difficult things for you to see.
00:41Someone who's willing to confront the powerful
00:44by asking hard questions,
00:46even if it means pissing them off.
00:49The Kremlin wants the world to believe
00:51that Russia is waging a war against terrorists.
00:54Its real purpose is a dedicated campaign of genocide.
01:01Well, you said you were going to be tough on him.
01:03You've dropped a bomb on his doorstep.
01:05I was aiming for his lap.
01:07If you choose to be a journalist in Russia,
01:10you have to accept the risk.
01:13Your wife, she's making quite a name for herself.
01:16A bit reckless, do you think?
01:17She says she's well aware of the danger she's into.
01:21But are you?
01:25We expect many more mask waves to be found.
01:30I've woken up every morning
01:31and wondered if my mother has been found in a ditch.
01:33I'm a journalist.
01:34Journalist.
01:35The tactics employed by the Kremlin
01:38is itself creating a wave of violence
01:41that has never been experienced.
01:44Oh, my God.
01:45The war has come home.
01:47People are killing each other.
01:48You get in the middle, then you're dead, too.
01:50Jeff Sneer's your baby,
01:52while this newspaper is mine.
01:54There is nothing of value apart from the truth.
01:59And I do not intend to stop.
02:05Here are some of my letters and friends.
02:07You see, we'll feel like a message.
02:09You see, I've found the truth of the wreaking Down hum.
02:10You see, you see, the wall is a hammer,
02:11and you see the wall,
02:12and I go to the wall.
02:13And I say, therrn,
02:14and you see, the wall is a happy place.
02:15You see, I saw a strategic ladder,
02:15and I'm not going to focus on the wall.
02:18Let's see, that's what we just do.
02:18This wall is a lucky ladder.
02:19And I'm going to focus on the wall.
02:21I really want to focus on the wall.
02:22I'm going to focus on the wall.
02:24I'm going to focus on the wall.
02:25And I can focus on the wall.
02:27I'll cannot focus on the wall.
02:30It's a scary path of the wall.

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