The U.S. embassy in Moscow reported in its cables about the murder of a Democratic journalist Politkovskaya by KGB-FSB on Putin's order, The Guardian writes. The cables were published by WikiLeaks. The paper points outs:

Murdered Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya had claimed that she had become accustomed to receiving death threats and "she had accepted the possibility that she could be killed at any time, and talked about it very little", a source revealed to the US ambassador to Moscow in 2006.

  The rather chilling insight into Politkovskaya state of mind before her murder in 2006 appears in a confidential cable dated 9 October 2006.

  The source is said to have claimed that Politkovskaya "constantly" received threats - "by telephone, letter, by e-mail, by SMS".

The most frequent threats, the source said, had come from the Chechen prime minister "Kadyrov's people" and the Russian special forces, whose brutalities in Chechnya had been exposed by Politkovskaya.

The Politkovskya file from the US Embassy in Moscow has been posted at this link.