Given what Politkovskaya represented—the responsibility of a democratic press to question the Kremlin and its policies—the government should have made certain that nothing bad happened to her. Putin’s Russia has already lost 12 leading journalists to murder in the past six years.
考虑到波利特科夫卡娅所代表东西，也就是民主的新闻质疑克里姆林宫及其政策的职责，政府本该确保在她不会遭遇不测。普京的俄罗斯在过去六年中已经失去了12位著名的记者。这些案件都没有被侦破，如果普京的“独裁法治”比公关策略稍好一点的话就不会这样。