Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich
Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich (born 1954) is a Polish journalist and author.
As a correspondent in Russia for the Polish media, she has written documentary films on Chechnya[1] investigating alleged human rights abuses by the Russian army. In 2000 she published Pandrioszka, an account of life in contemporary Russia.[1] Her 2007 book Głową o mur Kremla ("Banging one's head against the wall of the Kremlin"),[1] a history of Russia from the 1980s to the present, earned her the nickname the Polish Politkovskaya (Polska Politkowska).[citation needed]
Kurczab-Redlich received the Award for her work as a foreign correspondent and the Melchior Wańkowicz Award for her reports from Chechnya. In 2005 the Chechen organization , along with Amnesty International and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize.[1]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich Russian romance". Kyiv Weekly. 2010-10-25. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
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