Pressland Murders
Putin silent as fiercest critic is murdered
A crowd of protesters gathered in central Moscow yesterday to express their anger at the assassination of the crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who at the weekend became the 13th Russian journalist to be killed in a contract-style killing since President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000.
Politkovskaya, 48, had today been due to publish an article on torture and kidnappings by pro-Moscow forces in the restless southern republic of Chechnya, her colleagues said.
That’s a nice little “free press” thing you’ve got there. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.
That GIMP’d pic is totally © me, btw.
