[GSlob]

These oligarchs, disgusting as they might be, is the best that was there. [i.e. the rest is even worse]. What would have been the chances of staffing the whole ruling elite with the late Politkovskaya [or equally late Sakharov] human type?- zilch, albeit in theory such an outcome would be far preferable. And the oligarchs came close to power.

[Timedrifter]

These oligarchs, disgusting as they might be, is the best that was there. [i.e. the rest is even worse]. What would have been the chances of staffing the whole ruling elite with the late Politkovskaya [or equally late Sakharov] human type?- zilch, albeit in theory such an outcome would be far preferable. And the oligarchs came close to power.

Politkovskaya was a pro-terrorist sympathizer against her own people. She even took their side when they pulled off their terroist act at the Dubrovka theater. She allowed herself to be a mouthpiece for their propaganda and as a result many more people died then otherwise would have. She is as human as her fellow traveler Ward Churchill. Very few tears were shed in Russia for Basayev's chief propagandist.