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A Muckraker's Slaying Leaves Russian Province Fearing Crackdown
WSJ ^ | Sept. 2, 2008 | Alal Cullison

Posted on 09/02/2008 10:59:11 AM PDT by nuconvert

MOSCOW -- For months, the owner of a muckraking news Web site had stayed away from his home after receiving warnings to tone down his critique of Kremlin-backed authorities in the Russian province of Ingushetia, friends said.

But Magomed Yevloyev finally boarded a plane to return to Ingushetia this week, and there he encountered a surprise: The local governor was riding on the same plane, a few seats away from him in business class.

When the plane landed in Ingushetia, the governor was met by a Mercedes that whisked him away. And Mr. Yevloyev was arrested at the airport, deposited into a jeep and shot in the head. Local authorities say the killing was an accident.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caucasus; communism; geopolitics; ingushetia; kgb; purge; rusia; russia; soviets; sovietunion; yevloyev

1 posted on 09/02/2008 10:59:11 AM PDT by nuconvert
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Business as usual under Putin


2 posted on 09/02/2008 11:04:41 AM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists// Biden= Big,Blowhard Doofus)
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To: nuconvert

Obama is envious.


3 posted on 09/02/2008 11:12:05 AM PDT by kallisti ("If we're not foolish young, we're foolish old.")
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And Mr. Yevloyev was arrested at the airport, deposited into a jeep and shot in the head. Local authorities say the killing was an accident.

Uh huh.....

L

4 posted on 09/02/2008 11:20:58 AM PDT by Lurker (She's not a lesbian, she doesn't whine, she doesn't hate her country, and she's not afraid of guns.)
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To: nuconvert

Russia has clearly gone round the bend into madness and it is only a matter of time before we will be at war with them.


5 posted on 09/02/2008 11:22:26 AM PDT by MarMema ("..this isn't about the U.S. and Russia, It's about everyone and Russia.")
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To: nuconvert
All that is left is for Putin to send a bill to the family for the bullets.

The message from the media and political elites of Europe, move on keep walking, nothing to see here, keep walking, don't look nothing too see here.

An author on C-Spans Book TV put it really well. The European Union loves to congratulate themselves for creating this era of peace and stability in Europe while at the same time deploring the United States primitive “militarism” totally ignoring the fact that it was that very “militarism” that saved them from the fate of Eastern Europe.
In addition when this beacon of peace and stability was confronted with savagery and genocide in their own backyard they sat by and watched.

6 posted on 09/02/2008 11:26:26 AM PDT by Jonah Johansen ("Coming soon to a neighborhood near you")
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To: nuconvert

Confidential to mainstream media: pay attention to Putin’s playbook moves and ask yourself again which party shares that book.


7 posted on 09/02/2008 12:12:36 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("John McCain has a birthday but he gives US the present.")
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To: nuconvert
Yevloyev was arrested at the airport, deposited into a jeep and shot in the head. Local authorities say the killing was an accident.

"Ivan? Putin here. What is wrong with you!?! You don't know how to follow instructions? You were only supposed to shoot him in the knee! I'm trying to convince those fools at NBC I'm not the tyrant I'm being made out to be! Idiot! No more 'accidents' or I'll see that you have one!"

8 posted on 09/02/2008 1:02:43 PM PDT by PsyOp (Put government in charge of tire pressure, and we'll soon have a shortage of air. - PsyOp.)
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