Posted on 05/28/2015 10:52:43 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
MOSCOW If there was one weak spot in Russian support for the Kremlins aims in Ukraine this year, it was the populations strong aversion to sending in Russian troops something Russia denies doing, despite mounting international evidence to the contrary.
Now, Russia can ignore that evidence as well as any questions citizens might raise since President Vladimir Putin signed a decree classifying certain peacetime deaths of soldiers as state secrets.
Putin signed an order Thursday making the deaths of Russian troops lost during special operations a secret, amending a previous decree that limited such secrecy to deaths of soldiers in wartime. Some watchers can see only one plausible reason for the change: Russia is gearing up for another military push into Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/26/russia-using-mobile-crematoriums-hide-dead-soldier/
How Stalin-esque. They may as well just start photoshopping them out of the unit pictures.
Thanks elhombrelibre.
They already tried something similar. Right after shooting down the MH17 airliner they bragged about how they control the skies and just destroyed an Ukrainian military plane. When they found out it was a passenger jet they deleted it, but you can’t really delete things from the internet and their original bragging had been seen and saved.
Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. ; Putin Critic Poisoned.
Any number of sources: http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-kara-murza-hospitalized-evacuation/27041835.html#ixzz3bbEbV3Iq
I hope he pulls through, some reports say he is in grave condition.
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