"We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trialâ€”whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit."

Source : "Poisoned by Putin: The horror of Beslan was made still worse by the intimidation of Russia's servile media". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2004.

Anna Politkovskaya

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“While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.”
“Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.”

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“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”
“I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?”
“Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.”
“Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between ***** and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?”
“See the world with new eyes every day.”

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