Anna Politkovskay.
Journalists top those professions who thought to have rights for rightness. What's the veritas?
Among those symbols of journalism as a profession in Russia, and likely worldwide, is Anna Politkovskay. She contributed as Caucasian war correspondent, and ofter was thought to resemble a symbol of atonement of human rights.
There is a beautiful walk along Moscow, which surrounded by the greenery. It's Boulevard Ring. It has everything all way round: all the attractions under the shades of trees.
On Tverskoy Boulevard and nearby there are three famous Moscow theaters: Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky, A. Pushkin Theater on Malaya Bronnaya as well as the memorial museum of the great actresses Yermolova. “The House of Herzen” where the famous revolutionary thinker and progressive philosopher Alexander Herzen was born.
During summer trees protect from the heath, during winter they make tulips of snowfalls, during autumn they crash leaves into the ground, and during spring-temps there is half transparent blossom of fresh green.
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I like summertime. I live in Arbat district, and it's 500 meters of walking distance from Gogolevsky Boulevard. I often take Boulevard roots to get to Novaya Gazeta. It's a mid summer, on my way, sunshine.
I'm doing a long cover story for Novaya Gazetta, and my walk is to Novaya Gazeta from Old Arbat.
Kind soft, light. Light which is thought to have light around the head her grey silver hair straight down the shoulders, cutted without any attentiveness in how it looks, the hair looked as silver shine around them.
She has a kind soft smile, soft smiling eyes has nothing in common with her stone and irone appearance on TV, where she was talking about bloodshed which must be lesser than it is.
Her long skirt and cashmere sweater more reminds of a nun then of a leading Caucasian War correspondent, who was once supposed to be poisoned in the plane on its way to a catastrophic kindnapping tragedy in Beslan, she had been invited to be a bird of pray and peace.
I asked her once in the newsroom why had she chosen to be a journalist? What for? To be published?
She smile mirrored in her olderly graceful eyes, and she said:
- When I was young I wanted to grew up decent, and to speak.
She said that I'm an enthusiast. There was something protective in her soft eyes covered into wrinkles. And a warm soft smile. With those silver hair, graceful soft smile, with warm eyes covered into wrinkles she said:
- Goodluck!
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Lesnaya Street, House 8.
Politkovskaya was found dead in the lift, in her block of flats in central Moscow on 7 October 2006. She had been shot twice in the chest, once in the shoulder, and once in the head at point-blank range.
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Born August 30, 1958.
Died October 7, 2006.
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Yasen Zasursky, the Dean of the Department of the Lomonosov Moscow a State University, which I graduated from 30 years after Anna had graduated, said, 'her death is a shock for our journalism, shock for the conscience of our journalism because for all she symbolized conscience of our journalism. I think we all will remember Anna Politkovskaya as a decent, devoted to the journalism ideals of free, kind, humine journalism, that's journalism which strives against corruption and contravention of human rights ...'
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