Subject: [lbo-talk] Russian anti-war journalist murdered

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Oct 8 09:44:31 PDT 2006


No, but she was the one who compared Putin to Stalin, so she is the new martyr of democracy. (I am being sarcastic.)

Joanna

Chris Doss wrote:


>I don't mean to speak ill of the dead, but AP was a
>demogogue who was found guilty of libel on multiple
>occasions. She should not be glorified. And by no
>stretch of the imagination was she Russia's most
>famous investigative journalist.
>
>--
>Mark Franchetti, Moscow
>Times On-Line
>
>RUSSIA'S most famous investigative reporter, Anna
>Politkovskaya, was
>gunned
>down in the lift of her Moscow apartment block
>yesterday in an apparent
>contract killing. A fearless opponent of Russia's wars
>in Chechnya who
>once
>described President Vladimir Putin as a "KGB snoop"
>and compared him to
>Stalin, she was shot as she returned home from a
>shopping trip at
>4.30pm. A
>pistol and four bullets were found near her body.
>
>
>
>
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>
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