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Russian News Agency Itar-Tass Executive Killed in Moscow |
2006-10-17 |
![]() Deputy Central Bank governor Andrei Kozlov was shot dead with his driver on Sept. 13 as he left a football match in Moscow. Russian officials arrested an unspecified number of people involved in the killing, the Prosecutor General's office said today. Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot at the entrance to her apartment block on Oct. 7. Leaders from around the world including U.S. President George W. Bush called on the Russian government to carry out a thorough investigation to find her killers. No arrests have yet been made. Another banker, Alexander Plokhin, was killed by a gunshot wound to the head on Oct. 10. He was a branch head at VTB-24, the retail unit of Russia's second largest bank, Vneshtorgbank. A day later Furtanbek Akhidov, from the Chechen capital Grozny, was shot dead in the courtyard of the Moscow building where he lived, Interfax reported. Outside Moscow, Enver Ziganshin, chief engineer of BP Plc's Russian gas unit, OAO Rusia Petroleum, was gunned down in Irkutsk in Siberia on Sept. 30. |
Posted by:Fred |
#4 This feels more like 1937 than 1938. I wonder if Pootie has a little cubby above the courtroom where he will watch the tirals. Nah. Probably has CCTV to a hidden camera and mike. That's so modern. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-10-17 09:18 |
#3 Putie is getting awfully blatant in exterminating. Period. |
Posted by: twobyfour 2006-10-17 06:59 |
#2 Indeed, SpecOp35. I guess the Russians are terminally nostalgic. |
Posted by: .com 2006-10-17 01:25 |
#1 Putie is getting awfully blatant in exterminating the news media, isn't he ? |
Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-10-17 00:43 |