A Russian Diary

Politkovskaya is a Solzhenitsyn for the 21st century... Very few were telling a similar truth in her lifetime and even fewer will tell it now that she is dead

Observer

Politkovskaya gives an account of life as it is lived under Putin, fearlessly detailing the chaos and corruption she saw around her

Independent on Sunday

Brilliant... she reminds us what journalism can be

Herald

This is her testimony... it makes for impressive and immediate reading

Independent

Completely honest and fearless

Literary Review

Suppression of freedom of speech, of expression, reaches its savage ultimate in the murder of a writer. Anna Politkovskaya refused to lie, in her work; her murder is a ghastly act, and an attack on world literature

Nadine Gordimer

Like all great investigative reporters, Anna Politkovskaya brought forward human truths that rewrote the official story. We will continue to read her, and learn from her, for years

Salman Rushdie

Beyond mourning her, it would be more seemly to remember her by taking note of what she wrote

James Meek

It is a blow to the entire democratic, independent press. It is a grave crime against the country, against all of us

Mikhail Gorbachev