Russia: All The News Fit To Die For

[monk222]

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I see things are still the same with good old Vladimier Putin:

Since becoming president in 2000, fourteen investigative journalists have died in Russia—some murdered outright, others perishing in mysterious circumstances—under Vladimir Putin’s watch. This is one area where there has not been significant improvement since the Yeltsin Administration.

The latest case is that of Ivan Safronov, a former Space Forces colonel who became a military-affairs reporter for the newspaper Kommersant, whose body was found last Friday and who was buried today.

Safronov is reported to have been working on an article about the sale of advanced weaponry to Iran and Syria as well as the means by which third parties would be used to transship the weapons, giving Moscow “plausible deniability” if pressed by the United States or Israel on this issue. Some have also speculated that Safronov had obtained information on how these sales might also generate profits for specific individuals.

We really need rebukes and lectures from him on good governance and the rule of law.


(Source: Nikolas K. Gvosdev at NationalInterest.org)

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Comments

[being-elodie.livejournal.com]

Putin is an evil guy.

Having written this "up loud", I'll probably get poisoned any day now.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

LOL You're not Russian, are you? I think Putin is focusing on his own straying countrymen, for now.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Journalism may not be the best way to go, especially in the way of job security, heh. Librarians are probably more loved. ;)