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After we watched from the outside the old ways in Russia, it just looks like everything we've seen in the past.

Putin's ties with the KGB doesn't help the situation at all, and neither does his affection towards our "sworn" enemies, and those who run despotic, and outright Socialist/Communist regimes like Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, China, etc...

From our POV, or at least mine, it seems that SOMEONE in Russia is trying to get back the 'glory days' and that does nothing for the middle class if Russia were to revert back to Communist ways.

Since you are there, please explain to us what people in your country think when you see journalist critics, and banking officials being murdered left and right. To me it would seem that someone is attempting to influence control of money, and media. Two essential things for any socialist/communist/fascist revival...

Certainly it's awful. I just started thinking contract killing is in the past in our country? but it is not! And it's widely discussing. But where's relation with Putin policy. it's no so evidently as exposed in western media? And let split bankers murders and journalist. Bankers murders it's always for money. The only in case of Politkovsakya it's politically motivated murder.Russian natives for the most dislike her. For her lopsided interpretation of the Chechen war. She wrote a lot of federal forces crimes, nothing about rebels. And 'SOMEONE' it's not a government, In US SOMEONE wants ... and so what. it's not serious. We seek for better future not for 'glory days'. And think it's our privilege to determine it.

P.S I've never voted for Putin, I don't like communist! I've always voted for democratic parties in the past. But now democrats has lost any support for their economic policy in 90's

Since you are there, please explain to us what people in your country think when you see journalist critics, and banking officials being murdered left and right. To me it would seem that someone is attempting to influence control of money, and media. Two essential things for any socialist/communist/fascist revival...

Firstly, there were 29 journalists mudered under Yeltsin, and 12 under Putin, but then it is easy for you to call Putin KGB. That said, here is an article from today's Moscow Times.

3 Suspects Arrested in Kozlov Killing
By David Nowak, Staff Writer

Three suspects thought to have killed Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov have been arrested, a Moscow City Court spokeswoman said Monday.

The arrests were ordered by the Basmanny District Court, the city court spokeswoman, Anna Usachyova, said. The district court is overseen by the city court.

Usachyova declined to name those who had been arrested or to give any information about where or when the arrests took place.

Also Monday, the Prosecutor General's Office announced it had identified the people who are thought to have ordered the killing last month.

The announcement was posted on the Prosecutor General's Office web site.

The web site gave no details about the people behind the killing or whether they had been arrested. It also promised to punish anyone who leaked information about the ongoing investigation.

"At the present time, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Interior Ministry are conducting an investigation to determine the sources of a leak about the tactics of a criminal investigation that under current law are considered a state secret," the web site said.

Police have conducted a reenactment of the killing at the Spartak sports complex in northeastern Moscow, the complex's chief of security said last week.

My note, actually the suspects have been named in another newspaper.