TY - BOOK AU - Politkovskaya, Anna TI - A Russian Diary SN - 9780099523451 U1 - 947.085 PY - 2008/// PB - Random House KW - Biography & Autobiography N1 - A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late 2005, A Russian Diary is an unflinching record of the plight of millions of Russians and a pitiless report on the cynicism and corruption of Vladimir Putin's Presidency ER -