On Oct 9, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Michael Givel wrote:
> Actually, from January 1, 1992—August 15, 2006, see: http://
> www.cpj.org/killed/killed_archives/stats.html, there were 42
> journalists murdered in Russia. According to the Committee to
> Protect Journalists from 1992 to 1999 28 were killed in Russia
> from the following confirmed sources below.
How many of those made the front page of the NYT? I don't remember any. Yeltsin committed massive vote fraud, and the NYT wrote not a word. In fact, someone from the Times told me "there was no story there." But Yeltsin was a pliable guy. Putin is not. Therefore he is bad.
Doug