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