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...three days in late September for organizing a memorial for the victims of the Beslan school hostage tragedy. His crime: holding an unauthorized rally. In early October, Manfred Nowak, a United Nations rapporteur on torture, was forced to postpone a fact-finding trip to Chechnya and the northern Caucasus after he was told that his intention to visit detention facilities unannounced and interview detainees would contravene Russian law. A human-rights activist in Ingushetia had her nose broken when a demonstration to commemorate Politkovskaya was dispersed by police. Dmitrievsky's organization was shut down. "October had me holding my head...
...MURDERED. Anna Politkovskaya, 47, award-winning correspondent for Russia's Novaya Gazeta; found shot to death in the elevator of her apartment building; in Moscow. Politkovskaya, who won praise for her intrepid coverage of Russia's war in the Caucasus, was named one of TIME's European Heroes in 2003. Though she enjoyed the respect of many on both sides of the conflict, she was hated by hard-liners and often the target of death threats; Politkovskaya was mysteriously poisoned during the 2004 Beslan school-hostage crisis while setting up negotiations with the Chechen separatist hostage-takers...
...liberal community and hated by corrupt military and political officials, although she had enjoyed grudging respect even among some hardliners on both sides of the Chechnya war. She had testified to the U.S. Congress and the European Union Human Rights Commission on atrocities committed in the North Caucasus...
...respect she had established in her work as a fiercely independent chronicler of the brutal conflict in the North Caucasus was evident during the 2002 hostage debacle when Chechen terrorists seized a Moscow theater and hundreds of people inside. Politkovskaya had been one of the very few people allowed by the Chechen group to enter the theater to negotiate on behalf of the hostages. During the Beslan School hostage crisis in 2004, Politkovskaya was badly poisoned (by state agents, she alleged), just as she was on the verge of brokering talks between senior Russian officials and Chechen separatist leaders...
...among them is Hav, the microscopic, Levantine city-state she first put on the map 21 years ago with [an error occurred while processing this directive] Last Letters from Hav - and which she revisits in her latest, perhaps most insightful book yet, titled simply Hav. Located south of the Caucasus, north of Turkey and this side of paradise, Hav had drowsed for centuries through Greek, Turkish, Russian and British occupations, wars of all colors and a League of Nations mandate before attaining a genial, pre-civil-war-Beirut balance among its many ethnic and political factions. Morris' word-portraits...