posted October 08, 2006 01:57 PM              

A neighbor found Anna Politkovskaya's body in the building's elevator, the Russian non-governmental Interfax news agency reported. The mother of two had a fatal bullet wound.

Police found a handgun and four cartridge cases in the elevator.

Politkovskaya worked for the Novaya Gazeta, whose editor said the journalist's death was likely punishment for her stories.

Politkovskaya exposed rights abuses by Russian troops and remained critical of Moscow's campaign despite intense government pressure, the report said.

The head of Russia's main professional journalists association called her killing a "very black page in Russian history."

To this day I forgot that humans were capable of such terrorism to their own kind.