Description:
A friend rang us, on teh evening of 7 October 2006, to break the news of Anna's murder. We were driving in the south of France, on a trip for work. We turnedon the radio and began to search frantically for a radio station broadcasting the news. We refused to believe it, even though we were well aware of the risks Anna was running and despite the fact that she herself had said to us: "I'm amazed they haven't killed me yet".
We had first met her in Moscow in December 2003. But we had been familiar with her indomitable journalistic force for some time, and had read her books and articles. We saw her again the following year, in early September. She had just had ajust been discharged from a clinic after they had tried to poison her in order to stop her reaching Beslan. She was pale and fragile, but no less determined for that.
We realized that we had two longinterviews with Anna and a great deal of footage shot in Russia over the years.
This was the starting point for filming our documentary for the 211th journalist to be murdered by the democratic government of Russia.