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The killer of 2002 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award recipient Anna Politkovskaya is known to Russian authorities, the chief investigator on the case said, but no charges have been filed yet. Politkovskaya had been a reporter for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She was killed in October 2006.
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