Anna Politkovskaya, a courageous journalist who wrote for the Moscow-based opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, interviewed Ramzan in the home village of Tsentoroy, a place she described as “one of the unsightliest of Chechen villages, unfriendly, ugly and swarming with murderous-looking armed men.” Kadyrov calling Politkovskaya “an enemy of the Chechen people” and declaring that she “should have to answer for this.” She was murdered in the stairwell of her apartment building in Moscow 2006
