A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow.

Recently completed before her murder, this book is an unflinching record of the plight of millions of Russians during Putin's Presidency, by the accomplished investigative reporter Politkovskaya. She interviews people whose lives have been devastated, from the mothers of the children who died in the Beslan siege to the Russian soldiers maimed in Chechnya. With an foreword by Jon Snow.