Posted on 10/07/2006 8:52:06 AM PDT by struwwelpeter
While I disagreed with her opinion of Iraq and Bush, Politkovskaya was a brilliant journalist, and a brave one. Her actions during the theater hostage took guts, and had she not been poisoned, she may have been able to solve Beslan with little or no violence.
I suppose this should be a warning to anyone who dares question Tsar Putin...
After the fall of the wall Russian soldiers sold them along with their AK-47s on the German market places. It was the best time to get quite good (illegal) weapons extremely cheap. Since Germany has the most restrictive law on weapons you can think of many bought the "bankruptcy assets" of the Warsaw pact. Even really "hot" stuff like RPG-7s or Strela-3s were available if enough money was invested...
Since I am a architekt I bought some theodolites of good quality that were once used to measure in SS-20 missles. Sometimes I utilize them for more peaceful work in my job. :-)
Makarov is the most popular pistol in Russia - just like Kalashnikov is the most popular rifle. Check this: http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg21-e.htm
Yes, and thanks for the ping.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Russian+journalist+Anna+Politkovskaya&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape:en-US
Has some of the reports by and about her.
Reporters appear to be short lived in Russia.
Including having been trained in Moscow.
ML/NJ
Thank you for your report.
Makes the world a little smaller.
Hillary visited Moscow also?
"The Makarov was the official sidearm of the KGB and all USSR satellite countries Secret Police agencies. "You are incorrect. The Makarov (also known as "PM") was the standard and the most widespread sidearm of the Soviet police and military in general, since the late 1950s (after it phased out Tokarev automatic pistol). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makarov_PM Its not "distinctive" or "exclusive" specifically to the KGB or anyone else, especially in the ex-USSR and it is probably why it was used.
I wonder if she was recently working on a corruption story and if one of her sources was Andrei Koslov.
Mr. Koslov was the first deputy chairman of the Russian Central bank. He was murderd in Moscow on September 14th. He had known he was in danger for a long time because he attacked money laundering and shady financial practices by strong men in and out of government. Maybe "they" got to his records after his murder and found out who all he had been talking to. Maybe he was working with her because he thought the news exposure of what he had been uncovering would protect him, by identifying his enemies.
Just speculating today.
Very good speculation.
I'll try again later today. I had been refused the right to post from there about a year ago, as I recall.
"What surprised me was that the building the victim lived in must have had a *working* elevator!"I hope the *sarcasm* tag is turned on.
Not that I am aware of. She may have visited as a Senator, but that's not quite like Bill being "invited" while he was "at" Oxford and it was still the capital of the USSR.
ML/NJ
....soulless eyes..
Ms. Politkosvaya's death may or may not be related to her reporting work vis-a-vis the Chechens; I have no knowledge or ideas one way or the other on that.
I just found it interesting that her death followed by just two weeks the death of Mr. Koslov. I further speculated in my mind, that from what I've read of her, if she had been getting corruption info from Koslov, she probably would not have let his death alone silence her. Just more lazy saturday speculation from me.
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