Golovnina began working for Reuters in 2001 in Tokyo . She worked in London , Singapore and Seoul before being posted in Russia from 2002 to 2005 , where she covered topics such as the Moscow theater hostage crisis . In 2005 , she became Reuters ' chief correspondent in Central Asia . She covered the presidential election in Afghanistan in 2009 and did several stints in Iraq . She moved to the London editing desk in 2010 . In 2011 , she traveled to Tripoli to cover the Libyan Civil War , where she was a part of the team that received Reuters ' first Pulitzer Prize nomination in its history . In 2013 , she became Reuters ' bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan , a position she held until her death in 2015
Moscow theater hostage crisis
Moscow theater hostage crisis
Maria Golovnina