Polina Zherebtsova
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Who is Polina Zherebtsova?
Polina Zherebtsova is a writer, poet, and author, well known for penning The Diary of Polina Zherebtsova. Polina was a Andrei Sakharov Prize finalist "Journalism as an act of Conscience" in 2012. She was born in a mixed ethnic family in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic, USSR.
Author of the Report on war crimes in Chechnya in 1994-2004. ru. eng.
Polinabegan keeping her diary when she was 9 years old, at the start of the First Chechen War. She was still living in Grozny when the Second Chechen War began. On October 21, 1999, the market in Grozny where she was helping her mother sell newspapers was shelled, and Polina was moderately wounded.
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