Did Condé Nast Kill the Story of the Year to Appease Putin?

Pajamas Media ^ | Sept. 9 | Kim Zigfeld

[AJKauf]

And then there was one.

A few months ago, mainstream journalism somehow managed to report the story that the last high-profile human rights activist in Chechnya, Natalia Estemirova, had been assassinated by the Kremlin’s puppet regime in the breakaway region.

But little does the world know — because of the MSM’s characteristic negligence — about the Putin regime having not one but two separate campaigns of political murder underway. One is aimed at human rights activists who seek to reveal the barbaric crimes being committed against the civilian population by Russia’s forces in Chechnya, and the other targets those who would reveal the Kremlin’s involvement in the series of bombings in Moscow which left hundreds dead and was used to justify Russia’s 1999 invasion of Chechnya in the first place.

While the last human rights hero may have fallen, the last bombing campaigner remains alive — for now.

His name is Mikhail Trepashkin, and the current issue of GQ contains a brilliant effort by seasoned war correspondent Scott Anderson to focus enough attention on Trepashkin’s plight that the Kremlin might hesitate before whacking him.

Too bad Anderson didn’t realize Trepashkin wasn’t the only one who needed protection from treachery.

Anderson himself needed it, from his own editors and their malignant overlords at the Condé Nast publishing house. While Anderson was risking his life to report one of the world’s most overlooked news stories, his publishers were stabbing him in the back....

[neodad]

I’m sorry, but at first glance I read “Palin” not Putin.

[DesertRhino]

Question, Has any evidence ever surfaced of Putin being responsible for any political murder? Or is it all circumstantial? Because he did have some severe wars with Billionaires like the Yukos guy, and with Mafia’s. They both would love him to be weakened or removed. Is it possible they are willing to murder a journalist here and there, just to hang it around Putin’s neck?

Neither side is probably above it, but the billionaires there didnt get that way in the late 90s by being Bill Gates. They were old party guys from the USSR days who had the raw power to accomplish what they did. I always wonder why nobody suspects them in these murders, when they would benefit massively from them.

[DesertRhino]

This article sounds like the writer believes the Chechen muslims were innocent, and that Russia staged a 9-11 truther style attack on theirselves to justify quelling the jihad in Chechnya. Just a little timeline, Yeltsin was in power in Sept 99, and Putin ran for his first election a few months later.

He was unstoppable because he was picked and blessed by Yeltsin. He got double the votes of the nearest competitor. So why would he need a false flag operation? Its the same if one argues the elections were rigged, then he would have known he wouldn’t have needed a false flag.

I can’t put my finger on it, but this seems like the kind of stories the NY Times wrote about Bush and Iraq. Something about this is fishy to me.