Funeral for shot Russian reporter
By Niki Owen,WNS Moscow Correspondent
MOSCOW - The funeral of murdered Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya is due to take place in Moscow. The 48-year-old - a critic of President Vladimir Putin and his policies in Chechnya - was found shot dead at her Moscow apartment building on Saturday. Mr Putin said the murder was "tragic" and promised "all the necessary efforts toward an objective investigation". Many prominent journalists and Moscow's leading liberal politicians are expected to attend the funeral. The service will begin with mourners walking past Ms Politkovskaya's coffin before she is buried at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow.
On Monday, well-wishers laid flowers by photographs at a makeshift shrine in front of her apartment building and Russia's main newspapers ran pictures of her on their front pages. Colleagues at her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, published a special issue promising that "her killers will not sleep soundly" and the paper has offered a $1m (£534,000) reward to solve the murder.
And Mr Putin, in his first response to the shooting, promised a thorough investigation during a telephone conversation with US President George W Bush. Russia's top prosecutor is personally leading the official investigation, focusing on her investigative reporting as a possible motive for the crime. Ms Politkovskaya's body was found in a lift at her block of flats. Grainy CCTV footage shows a man in a baseball cap following her inside just before the shooting.
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