Chris Tryhorn
Monday September 6, 2004
Prout Editor's note: It appears that the Russian news media is now about as censored, restricted and incomplete as the so-called free press in America - the land of so-called freedom and democracy. And certainly American journalists reporting the truth from Iraq are in as great a danger at being shot dead by their own American soldiers as the great Anna Politkovskaya - for daring to write the truth. So once again we need to ask the question: Who are the real terrorists - those who suppress the voice of freedom and dissent, or those who light bombs in order to be heard in the dense jungle of oppression and tyranny of capitalists?
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Alarm bells are ringing in Russian media circles after the alleged poisoning of Anna Politkovskaya, one of the most outspoken critics of Vladimir Putin's policy on Chechnya, and the apparent sacking of the editor of Izvestia today.
Politkovskaya, who writes for the current affairs magazine Novaya Gazeta, was on her way to the siege in Beslan from Moscow when she collapsed mysteriously.
