Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich (born 6 December 1954 in

Zabrze Zabrze (; German: 1915–1945: ''Hindenburg O.S.'', full form: ''Hindenburg in Oberschlesien'', Silesian: ''Zŏbrze'', yi, זאַבזשע, Zabzhe) is an industrial city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The west district of the Sil ...

) is a Polish journalist and author. As a correspondent in Russia for the Polish media, she has written documentary films on

Chechnya Chechnya ( rus, Чечня́, Chechnyá, p=tɕɪtɕˈnʲa; ce, Нохчийчоь, Noxçiyçö), officially the Chechen Republic,; ce, Нохчийн Республика, Noxçiyn Respublika is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the ...

investigating alleged human rights abuses by the

Russian army The Russian Ground Forces (russian: Сухопутные войска �В Sukhoputnyye voyska V, also known as the Russian Army (, ), are the Army, land forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The primary responsibilities of the Russian Gro ...

. In 2000 she published ''Pandrioszka'', an account of life in contemporary Russia. Her 2007 book ''Głową o mur Kremla'' ("Banging one's head against the wall of the Kremlin"), a history of Russia from the 1980s to the present, earned her the nickname ''the Polish Politkovskaya'' (''Polska Politkowska''). Kurczab-Redlich received the Kazimierz Dziewanowski Award for her work as a foreign correspondent and the Melchior Wańkowicz Award for her reports from Chechnya. In 2005 the Chechen organization Echo of War, along with

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Publications

* 2000 – ''Pandrioshka'', Rebis Publishing House * 2007 – ''Head against the Kremlin wall'', W.A.B. Publishing House * 2012 – ''Head against the Kremlin wall. New Facts'', W.A.B. Publishing House, Terra Incognita series * 2016 – ''Vova, Volodya, Vladimir. Secrets of Putin's Russia'', W.A.B. Publishing House

References

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