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Russian Reporter Dies In 5-Story Fall
AP ^ | March 5, 2007

Posted on 03/05/2007 1:00:51 PM PST by jmc1969

A military correspondent for Russia's top business daily has died after falling out of a window, and some media alleged Monday that he might have been killed for his critical reporting.

Ivan Safronov, the military affairs writer for Kommersant, died Friday after falling from a fifth-story window in the stairwell of his apartment building in Moscow, officials said. His body was found by neighbors shortly after the fall.

With prosecutors investigating the death, Kommersant and some other media suggested foul play.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: putincide
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To: jmc1969

2 Blondes at the top of the Empire State Building

Blonde 1 - If I jumped from here how long do you think it would be until I reached the bottom.

Blonde 2 - This high? It would take 2 weeks.

Blonde 1 - Do you think I would die?

Blonde 2 - 2 Weeks without food or water? There's no way you could survive!


61 posted on 03/05/2007 2:20:02 PM PST by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: expatpat

I would suspect the Chinese before the KGB ... the clintons didn't get to sell out as much of this country's secrets to the Russians so the Russians wouldn't be as interested in the fortunes of Mrs. Bill Clinton or the bent one. I actually think the Russians find bill to be a disgusting persona and the democrats' fawning over him to be cult of the personality worship. KGB knew how weak he was, how void of character and prone to reckless use of military assets for cover of his fecklessness.


62 posted on 03/05/2007 2:21:01 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: jmc1969

This is getting nuts. If it walks like a duck...


63 posted on 03/05/2007 2:31:23 PM PST by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
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To: jmc1969

Fvee geev leetle help, da? Juz leetle puzh ....


64 posted on 03/05/2007 2:34:55 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

From an old Peter Lorre movie:

How did he die?

"He fell on my knifffe... 23 times he fell on my knife. He kept getting up... and falling on eeet again."


65 posted on 03/05/2007 2:40:51 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: expatpat

I wouldn't put anything past Mrs. Bill Clinton. Mrs. Bill Clinton and Mr. Putin are Birds of a feather when it comes down to it. Hopefully, they won't be working buddies starting in 2009.


66 posted on 03/05/2007 2:48:53 PM PST by unkus
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To: ravingnutter

there are a few threads here on that already

another note - saw on the news last night that another guy besides that one that was also on that Dateline show died right before the show aired - of an apparent heart attack


67 posted on 03/05/2007 2:53:10 PM PST by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)
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To: jmc1969

Thank you Mr. Putin for not torturing him.


68 posted on 03/05/2007 3:17:26 PM PST by westmichman (They cried "Peace, peace," but there is no peace.)
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To: jmc1969
Putin and the Clintons have a lot in common?

I wonder what Comrade Livingstone is doing these days?

Signed, CTDWMVP

(Committee To Discover Who Murdered Vince Foster)

69 posted on 03/05/2007 3:21:14 PM PST by mborman
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To: expatpat
Perhaps it was the KGB who "nobbled" John John Kennedy so that Mrs. Bill Clinton could become Senator........

You have to wonder what will be the demise of the Clinton duo when the USSR and the ChiComs are finished with them?

70 posted on 03/05/2007 3:23:38 PM PST by mborman
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To: jmc1969

droppin' like flies...


71 posted on 03/05/2007 3:27:20 PM PST by isom35
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To: jmc1969
Kommersant and some other media suggested foul play.

Ya think?


72 posted on 03/05/2007 3:49:49 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: Berosus; Cincinatus' Wife; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion; Fedora; ..

Another one of Putin's greatest hits.


73 posted on 03/05/2007 4:34:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, February 19, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jmc1969
Interesting article by the murdered author:

Chechen Experience Comes in Handy for Lebanon - Oct. 05, 2006 - Mikhail Zygar, Ivan Safronov, Musa Muradov - The idea to send Chechen servicemen to Lebanon first appeared during the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and official delegations from Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, who offered to Moscow to involve Russian Muslim soldiers to post-war reconciliation in the region. Then, Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said that Chechen soldiers are ready to go to Lebanon at the first call of Russian authorities.

74 posted on 03/05/2007 4:37:59 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Dr. Frank fan
"provided one ignores Occam's Razor."

You are correct. I forgot about that son of a um gun. But he would have slit the reporters throat with the razor*, not pushed him out the window.

In the good old days of the KGB, people simply disappeared, like Vladimir Aleksandrov.

*I've emailed OJ several times about Occam, but he has not looked into it as far as I know.
75 posted on 03/05/2007 5:00:15 PM PST by DBrow
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To: jdm
Jeez. The clintonistas need note takers.
76 posted on 03/05/2007 7:47:58 PM PST by b4its2late (Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
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To: jmc1969

Airmailed!!


77 posted on 03/05/2007 7:51:11 PM PST by mo
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To: Dan(9698)

It's not the fall, it's the sudden stop. ;)


78 posted on 03/05/2007 9:47:33 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe (Ah don't feeeeel no ways taihrd.)
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To: DBrow

"Suppose someone whose motives we don't trust is running an op to make Russia look bad? Chavez, Castro, Kim il Jong, Steve Harper (just kidding)?

Bullseye!

Except the one you name are not the ones who want to see Mother Russia hurt.

I'm amazed most people refuse to get it.


79 posted on 03/05/2007 9:57:52 PM PST by baubau (BOYCOTT Bank of America for Issuing Credit Cards to 3rd World Illegal Aliens.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

That's three now, isn't it?


80 posted on 03/05/2007 9:59:17 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
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