Politkovskaya

Hundreds of people have gathered in central Moscow to pay tribute to prominent journalist Anna Politkovskaya - a day after she was murdered.

They lit candles and laid flowers as they held posters describing the killing as politically-motivated.

The 48-year-old mother of two was known as a fierce critic of the Kremlin's actions in Chechnya.

Her death has been widely condemned in Russia and elsewhere. But there has been no word so far from the Kremlin.



The photographer gets quite annoyed and you realise that Politkovskaya is still young (she's 46). And still hopeful. The author picture on the back of her new book, Putin's Russia, is so self-consciously tragic, and its subject matter so bleak, that I ask her whether she thinks it might take generations for her country to become truly free.

"I wouldn't ever want to say it would take generations," she says. "I want to be able to live the life of a human being, where every individual is respected, in my lifetime."