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It should be noted that Anna Politkovskaya did not "only" criticize Putin personally. She covered all of the Russian elite and the Chechen war in her reporting. She knew how all of the Russian ruling class was tied together, how Putin had risen to power and how they were undermining democracy and freedom.
Yes, she did an exceptional work. In 2004, she published her book 'Putin's Russia', and a year ago the French newspaper 'Le Monde' published an extract for those interested.
She actually lived long. Say, Alexander Lebed' died in a helicopter crash in 2002, and Galina Starovoytova was killed in 1998, and similarly bad things (or just their marginalization and presentation as nutjobs by mass media, like with Novodvorskaya and Stomakhin) happened to most of people with actual political potential and spine from the Russian 90s.