The case of Politkovskaya symbolizes press freedom. On October 7, 2006, journalist Anna Politkovskaya is murdered outside her apartment in Moscow. It is the tragic end of a decades-long persecution by the Russian state apparatus. Overnight, Anna Politkovskaya becomes a global symbol for the fight for justice and freedom of expression. To this day, she is regarded as one of the most important critics of Putin's Russia. In this book, her daughter tells the entire story of her mother for the first time: personal, moving, and alarmingly relevant.

When Anna Politkovskaya died, her daughter Vera was 26 years old. With this book, she pays tribute to her mother's legacy. She vividly recounts her mother as a role model, as a woman who would not be intimidated, as a woman who would have called it war. She shows how her mother's uncompromising political struggle reached into the innermost family structures and the shadows it cast. Vera Politkovskaya reveals the mechanisms of the Russian power apparatus and sheds new light on our current political debates. By looking back at the last major Russian war in Chechnya, she also explores the wars of our time.

This book is a plea for the power of truth. A moving portrait and a combative manifesto. A dark look into the future. Dark like the color of Russian oil, with which living rooms are heated in this country. It seems high time to take a closer look at what kind of country it actually is from which it comes. Until her murder on October 7, 2006, only those who had dealt with the Chechen war knew the name of this brave journalist. Overnight, her always sad yet determined face became a symbol of freedom of expression. Anna Politkovskaya's cry still resonates.