That went out when Yeltsin's Yabloko Party came in fifteen years ago.
Posted on 03/21/2008 9:26:41 AM PDT by Borges
A journalist for state-run Russian television was found dead in Moscow early Friday and prosecutors have opened a murder investigation, colleagues and officials said.
Firefighters found Channel One correspondent Ilyas Shurpayev's body in his apartment with stab wounds and a belt around his neck, Channel One spokeswoman Larisa Krymova said. She said a fire was apparently set in the apartment after the attack.
The Investigative Committee, a branch of the prosecutor's office said a murder investigation was underway. It said nothing about a possible motive.
State-run Vesti-24 television cited a concierge in Shurpayev's building as saying he had called down from his apartment early Friday to ask her to let two young men in.
Shurpayev, 32, was a native of the mostly Muslim Dagestan province and had worked in Russia's violence-ridden North Caucasus, which includes Dagestan and war-scarred Chechnya. Dagestan is plagued by tension among rival groups and political factions.
Hours before his death, Shurpayev wrote in his blog that the owners of a newspaper in Dagestan banned a column he wrote and instructed its staffers not to mention his name in publications.
"Now I am a dissident!" was the title of the last entry in the Web journal under his name.
More than a dozen journalists have been slain in contract-style killings in Russia since 2000. Many journalists appear to have been targeted for beatings and killings because of their attempts to dig into allegations of corruption.
Hate attacks on members of ethnic minorities from the Caucasus and former Soviet Central Asia are also common in Moscow.
Critics say Russia has witnessed a steady rollback of post-Soviet media and political freedoms during President Vladimir Putin's eight-year presidency. Top independent television stations have been shut down and print media have also experienced growing official pressure.
“How do you tell when a reporter’s dead?”
Their stories get better.
The belt around his neck had Lavrenti Beria’s fingerprints on it.
Ah, the sweetness
of peristroika and glasnost.......
A journalist for state-run Russian television was found dead in Moscow early Friday and prosecutors have opened a murder investigation, colleagues and officials said.
Did this guy ever write an article about Clinton. Shades of Vince Foster!
Back in the USSR
That went out when Yeltsin's Yabloko Party came in fifteen years ago.
“body in his apartment with stab wounds and a belt around his neck,”
They’ll ultimately determine it was suicide by not keeping his mouth shut.
Bump.
If you’re going to be a Russian journalist then play it safe and become a war correspondent.
I was just about to “ping” you, but see you’re already on it.
Russian Journalists are becoming an endangered species.
It is difficult to understand how they get away with all the killing and so many people simply accept it, both there and here.
Sad statement for a country.
Yep, sad indeed.
For sure. Basically, I was pointing out what a joke the idea that nation would open up and change would be. Twenty years ago, the left bought it hook, line, and sinker....
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