Milena Jesenskб Fellowship program

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying out loud what they think, said the journalist Anna Politkovskaja who was also a fellow of the Milena Jesenská Programme in 2001. These words were uncomfortably prophetic as Politkovskaja, a courageous and outspoken critic of Putin´s government who also wrote extensively on human rights violations in Chechnya, was murdered in Moscow on October 7, 2006. Read more