Arkady Babchenko

I'm reading it in its Dutch translation. It's the best, most horrid account of the full dirtyness of a war I've ever read, or maybe even seen.
He's became a good friend of Politkovskaja, who introduced him as a journalist to the Novaja Gazeta, the newspaper she worked for.
Here is one review (in Dutch): http://www.prospekt-online.nl/prospekt/prospekt_recensies/kleur.html