考虑到波利特科夫卡娅所代表东西，也就是民主的新闻质疑克里姆林宫及其政策的职责，政府本该确保在她不会遭遇不测。
Given what Politkovskaya represented—the responsibility of a democratic press to question the Kremlin and its policies—the government should have made certain that nothing bad happened to her.