Anna Politkovskaya awarded with international literary prize posthumously

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Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was awarded with Tiziano Terzani International Literary Prize 2007. As Radio Liberty informs, the decision was made unanimously to mark rare moral courage of Anna Politkovskaya, who paid her life for criticism of power abuse.   

The award ceremony is to be held on May 12 in Udine, Italy. The award will be presented to Novaya Gazeta newspaper Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muradov.

Tiziano Terzani was one of outstanding Italian journalists, who had worked abroad for a long time, first of all, in Asian countries. After 9/11 tragedy he published Letters against the War book. Tiziano Terzani International Literary Prize was established in 2004. It is awarded for works, where acute problems of the West-East relations are raised.  

As REGNUM informed earlier, Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya was shot down in the entrance of her block of flats, where she rented an apartment, on October 7 in Moscow. Some evidences prove it was a contract murder.