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2004-09-10 Caucasus

Can a post-Beslan "Chechen backlash" story still belong on Page 2?

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Posted by Another Dan 2004-09-10 5:16:49 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anyone who flew in the Buran doesn't lack for guts.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-10 9:00:48 AM|| 2004-09-10 9:00:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The bigger story is the one our incompetent MSM foreign correspondents can't effectively cover: the criminalization of the Russian state. The western hacks who parachute into Moscow every other year don't have any sources in the Russian security services or other branches of the government, they don't speak the language, they merely quote other journalists and "experts" at the Carnegie Foundation rather than dig to get the deeper story.

Point here is that Russia needs a thorough overhaul of its rotten state institutions. They are failing massively, and if Russia fails, we fail.

Posted by lex 2004-09-10 10:23:10 AM|| 2004-09-10 10:23:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm confused: was he in fact a Caucasian Muslim, or did his name merely suggest it? I can't decide if I'm pleased about this beatdown or not. But at least something's happening.

Posted by BH 2004-09-10 10:28:05 AM|| 2004-09-10 10:28:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 You should not be pleased. The Moscow police are corrupt, moronic thugs who routinely shake down and beat randomly-selected dark-complexioned "southerners" who appear to be from the Caucasus.

Posted by lex 2004-09-10 1:24:08 PM|| 2004-09-10 1:24:08 PM|| Front Page Top

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