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Anna Mazepa Politkovskaya was born in New York City in 1958, the daughter of Stepan Fedorovich Mazepa (1927–2006) from [[Kostobobriv]], Ukraine and Raisa Aleksandrovna Mazepa (1929–2021) from [[Kerch]]. Some sources say that her birth name was actually ''Hanna Mazeppa''.<ref>[https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/time-out/halyna-mazepa-my-fondest-ukrainian-memories-are-katerynoslav Halyna Mazepa: My fondest Ukrainian memories are of Katerynoslav], day.kyiv.ua</ref> Other sources state that she was born in [[Chernihiv Oblast|Chernihiv]] region of Ukraine.<ref>[http://www.annapolitkovskayafund.com/contact.html Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405135412/http://www.annapolitkovskayafund.com/contact.html |date=5 April 2015}}, annapolitkovskayafund.com</ref> Her parents, Soviet diplomats at the United Nations, were [[History of Ukraine#Soviet Ukraine|Ukrainian]].<ref>[http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Politkovskaya-Anna.html Anna Politkovskaya], notablebiographies.com</ref>
Politkovskaya spent most of her childhood in Moscow; she graduated from [[Moscow State University]]'s school of journalism in 1980.<ref>[http://russiaprofile.org/bg_people/resources_whoiswho_alphabet_p_anna_politkovskaya.html Politkovskaya, Anna Stepanovna] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310081349/http://russiaprofile.org/bg_people/resources_whoiswho_alphabet_p_anna_politkovskaya.html |date=10 March 2015 }}, russiaprofile.org</ref> While there, she defended a thesis about the poetry of [[Marina Tsvetaeva]]<ref>Her school friends would note that the only and main specific about Politkovskaya is that she was very much into Tsvetaeva, who also have specific place in her poetry about [[hell]], which probably influenced the titles of Politkovskaya books – {{YouTube|9so6xrvjiKA|Anna Politkovskaya: Last Interview}}, Simon Karlinsky, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=I3A7AAAAIAAJ Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, Her World, and Her Poetry]'', CUP Archive, 1985</ref> and married fellow student [[Alexander Politkovsky]]. They had two children, Vera and Ilya. At first Alexander was better known, joining TV journalist [[Vladislav Listyev]] as one of the hosts on the late-night TV-program ''[[Vzglyad (TV program)|Vzglyad]]''. Apart from her childhood years, Politkovskaya spent no more than a few weeks outside Russia at any one time, even when her life came under threat. She was a U.S. citizen and had a U.S. passport, although she never relinquished her Russian citizenship.<ref name=BeckySmith>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/russia/article/0,,1896806,00.html |title='Independent journalism has been killed in Russia' Becky Smith |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=11 October 2006|access-date=8 August 2009}}</ref>
==Journalistic work==
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