Bog Face: Russia's shame:
Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of Putin and of the situation in Chechnya, is THE THIRD REPORTER from her paper, Novaya Gazeta, to be murdered since Putin took over in 2000. Reporter Igor Domnikov was beaten to death with a hammer that same year and Yury Shchekochikhin was poisoned to death in 2003. In 2004, the American editor of the Russian Forbes magazine - who was investigating the misappropriation of Russian funds in Chechnya - was shot to death. And according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 12 journalists have been murdered in contract-style killings since Putin came to power.
And not one of the murderers has been caught.
It's a campaign of terror clearly levied from the highest circles and designed to inspire strict self-censorship in Rusian journalists. What other conclusion can be drawn when 12 journalists critical of the Kremlin are assassinated in six years and not a single killer gets caught?
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