I think the Anna P.-Journalist really was a traitor. At least Russia knows how to treat its traitors. We celebrate traitors in America, or least give them full tenure at a local university.
So you would prefer to live under fascism where journalists are murdered for their criticism of the leadership, rather than here, where we have freedom of speech?
I don't know whether that was true or not but Russian public ignored her articles in general because it had and has little sympathy for such matters.
AFAIK, her role can be compared to Jane Fonda's during the US Vietnamneese expedition, the difference is that JF is alive.