[lbo-talk] Reporter's death fuels fear for Russia media freedom

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 9 08:29:52 PDT 2006


On Oct 9, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Chris Doss wrote:


> Jeeze, where were these people in the 1990s, when mob
> hits against journalists, politicians and
> businesspeople were a weekly occurrence in Russia?

Hey, those were the Yeltsin years, and Yeltsin was our man. Birth pangs of a New Russia, they were.

Who killed that Forbes guy whose name I can't remember? Was there a Western fuss about that?

Doug



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