Being silenced, Russian style

The BBC reports (here) the death of Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist known as a fierce critic of the Kremlin's actions in Chechnya.
This follows the death of the vice-president of Russia's central bank, Andrei Kozlov (here), who died in mid-September hours after being shot by unidentified assailants in an attack that officials suggested was prompted by his efforts to clean up the country's banking system.

And they say the wild-west is in the USA...


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