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  • Powerful Russian (ethnic Kurd) mob boss killed by sniper in Moscow

    01/18/2013 12:24:01 AM PST · by klpt · 18 replies
    CBS ^ | January 17, 2013 | CBS
    One of Russia's top crime lords was gunned down Wednesday in Moscow in what police described as a war between two powerful mobs over lucrative construction projects, allegedly including ones for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Police said an unidentified gunman fired seven shots from a sniper gun at Aslan Usoyan near a restaurant in central Moscow — the third assassination attempt on him since the late 1990s. Usoyan, also known as Grandpa Khasan, was a 75-year-old ethnic Kurd born in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Police say for the past two decades he headed one of the...