People from Sevastopol - Anastasia Baburova (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anastasia Eduardivna Baburova (Ukrainian:, Anastasia Eduardovna Baburova Russian: 30 November 1983 19 January 2009) was a journalist for Novaya Gazeta and a student of journalism at Moscow State University. She was born in Sevastopol, Ukraine. A member of Autonomous Action, she investigated activities of neo-Nazi groups. She was shot and killed together with human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who was the other of the assassin's targets. Anastasia Baburova was the only child of her parents Eduard Fjodorovich Baburov and Larissa Iwanivna Baburova who were both professors at the Sevastopol National Technical University. In 2000 she began studying at the Management-Faculty of the Black Sea branch of the Moscow State University in Sevastopol. Together with her mother she became a Russian citizen in the year 2000 . She went to Moscow in 2001 and became a student international law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 2003 she married a fellow Journalistic-Student, Alexander Frolov, whom she met in 2000 during her studies in Sevastopol. In 2004 Baburova became a journalist student at the Moscow State University Along with her studies, she worked as a freelance journalist for Wetschernjaja Moskwa, Rossiskaja Gazeta and Izvestia. In the summer of 2007 Baburova and Frolov divorced. From October 2008 she investigated (as a freelance-journalist) Russian Neo-Nazi Groups for Novaya Gazeta. Besides the Russian and Ukrainian which she considered her native languages, she also spoke English and French. Baburova's political activity may be traced back to her having witnessed an attack by neo-nazis on a foreigner, after which she wrote in her diary, "It is difficult to look in the eyes of a Korean student, who has only just been... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=21173360