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Anna Politkovskaya

1958 - 2006

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Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (née Mazepa; 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian investigative journalist who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005). It was her reporting from Chechnya that made her national and international reputation. For seven years, she refused to give up reporting on the war despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Politkovskaya has received more than 1,983,956 page views. Her biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Anna Politkovskaya is the 9th most popular journalist (down from 8th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from United States (up from 589th in 2019) and the most popular American Journalist.

Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist who was assassinated in 2006. She is most famous for her reporting on the human rights abuses in Chechnya.

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  • 77

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  • 8.39

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  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Anna Politkovskaya ranks 9 out of 196. Before her are Oriana Fallaci, François-Noël Babeuf, Gianni Rodari, Joseph Pulitzer, Sebastião Salgado, and Gerda Taro. After her are Robert Guérin, Julian Assange, Dorothea Lange, John Reed, Beate Klarsfeld, and Victor Noir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Anna Politkovskaya ranks 15. Before her are Gary Oldman, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Kate Bush, Michelle Pfeiffer, Prince, and Viggo Mortensen. After her are Ice-T, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marie Fredriksson, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Bacon, and Bruce Dickinson. Among people deceased in 2006, Anna Politkovskaya ranks 19. Before her are Alfredo Stroessner, Saparmurat Niyazov, Owen Chamberlain, Heinrich Harrer, György Ligeti, and Mako. After her are Ibrahim Rugova, Giacinto Facchetti, Paul Mauriat, Johannes Rau, Melvin Schwartz, and Desmond Doss.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anna Politkovskaya ranks 529 out of 20,380. Before her are Charlie Parker (1920), Kip Thorne (1940), Michael Keaton (1951), Farrah Fawcett (1947), Alice Cooper (1948), and Chester A. Arthur (1829). After her are Nelson Rockefeller (1908), Tom Clancy (1947), Alvin Toffler (1928), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Tennessee Williams (1911), and Ferid Murad (1936).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Anna Politkovskaya ranks 1. After her are Dorothea Lange (1895), John Reed (1887), W. Eugene Smith (1918), Lee Miller (1907), Tucker Carlson (1969), Edgar Snow (1905), Charles Dow (1851), Diana Nyad (1949), Steve McCurry (1950), Walker Evans (1903), and Margaret Bourke-White (1904).

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