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A mother's life and passion: Anna Politkovskaja

Ranveig Eckhoff
Review written by Ranveig Eckhoff
My mother would have called it war
Forfatter: Vera Politkovskaja med Sara Giudice
Forlag: Tropen, (Tyskland)
RUSSIA / Anna Politkovskaya's daughter: "My greatest wish is to experience Russia as a flourishing, free and developed country, not desolate, poor and militarized."




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Ranveig Eckhoff
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