Sunday, October 08, 2006

Outspoken Putin Critic Shot Dead in Moscow


"Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead on Saturday at her apartment block in central Moscow, police said. "According to initial information she was killed by two shots when leaving the lift. Neighbors found her body," a police source told Reuters."

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I found this particularly disturbing:

"She said she was unable to cover the bloody siege of a school at Beslan in 2004 -- in which more than 330 children and parents died when troops stormed the school -- because she was poisoned on the flight from Moscow and ended up in hospital."

How brave someone would have to be to press on with this kind of work, in the face of this kind of danger. And you have to think that the only way this could be inconspicuous enough for her to eat/drink that crap, some average-jane stewardess played a part too, probably for some piddly amount of money. How horrible.

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