PUTIN IS NOT A NICE GUY! - Putin orders a massive bombing campaign against the tiny, defenseless breakaway republic of Chechnya, apparently wanting to reassert Russian power. Hundreds of civilians are killed. - The most prominent pro-democracy Kremlin critic in the nation, is murdered at her apartment building - An apartment building in the Pechatniki neighborhood of Moscow is blown up by a bomb. 94 are killed. Less than a week later a second bomb destroys a building in Moscow’s Kashirskoye neighborhood, killing 118. - Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and killed in Moscow. Forbes has reported that at the time of his death, Paul was believed to have been investigating a complex web of money laundering involving a Chechen reconstruction fund, reaching into the centers of power in the Kremlin and involving elements of organized crime and the FSB (the former KGB). - Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin - Anna Politkovskaya (pictured, right), author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and killed at her home in Moscow - Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the bombings is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:28:48 +0000
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