Fox News:
Georgia's pro-Western president said yesterday that Vladimir Putin remained determined to kill him as part of his ambition to restore Russia's former Soviet empire.
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So call Cheney. maybe he can cut a deal for you with Blackwater. HA!
Had to yank on that Bear's chain, didn't you mikhail? Where are your "friends" now?
His friends haven't gone anywhere.
Putin is scary, so is Mikhail Saakashvili. Both of them have shut down opposition media in their respective countries.
It's been nice.
Mikki, baby, if Vlad really wanted you dead, believe me, Sarky, you'd be deader than a doornail.
good
OMG I was just about to type that. But then I thought about how I would fee if someone said that about Obama.
Not saying I don't get you. He shouldn't have listened to McCain and Pailn.
lets see, odds are against journalists in Russia vs. government leadership,
but I would still worry.
2002
• Natalia Skryl, the Nashe Vremya newspaper, Taganrog town;
• Konstantin Pogodin, the Novoye Delo newspaper, Nizhni Novgorod city;
• Valeri Batuev, Moscow News newspaper, Moscow;
• Sergei Kalinovski, the Moskovskiy Komsomolets, Smolensk;
• Vitali Sakhn-Val'da, photojournalist, Kursk town;
• Leonid Shevchenko, the Pervoye Chteniye newspaper, Volgograd;
• Valeri Ivanov, the chief editor for the Tol'yattinskoye Obozrenie newspaper, the Samara region;
• Sergei Zhabin,the press service of the governor of the Moscow region;
• Nikolai Vasiliev, Cheboksary city, Chuvashia;
• Leonid Kuznetsov, the Mescherskaya Nov' newspaper, the Ryazan region;
• Paavo Voutilainen, a former main editor of the Kareliya magazine, Kareliya;
• Roddy Scott, the Frontline-TV TV Company, from Great Britain.
• Alexandr Plotnikov, the Gostiny Dvor newspaper, Tyumen city;
• Oleg Sedinko, the founder of the Novaya Volna TV and Radio Company, Vladivostok city;
• Nikolai Razmolodin, the general director of the Europroject TV and Radio Company, Ulyanovsk town;
• Igor Salikov, the chief of the Department of information safety of the Moskovskiy Komsomolets newspaper in Penza;
• Leonid Plotnikov, the publishing house "Periodicals of the Mari-El", Yoshkar-Ola.
we are only up to 2002 for a complete list click on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia[
more killed:
• Sergey Ivanov, Lada-TV, October 3, 2000, Togliatti. He was shot five times in the head and chest in front of his apartment building. He was director of Lada-TV, the largest independent television company in Togliatti, which was an important player on the local political scene.[26]
• Antonio Russo, special correspondent of Radio Radicale, an Italian journalist, born in Francavilla a Mare (Chieti, Italy) in 1960 and murdered near Tbilisi on Oct.16,2000, because he was writing on the use of chemical and biological weapons against civils in Chechenya and on abuses and the use of torture by the police against political prisoners.
• Adam Tepsurgayev, Reuters, November 21, 2000, Chechnya. A Chechen cameraman, he was shot at a neighbor's house in the village of Alkhan-Kala. He produced most of Reuters' footage from Chechnya in 2000, including shots of Chechen rebel Shamil Basayev having his foot amputated.[citation needed]
• Eduard Markevich, 29, editor and publisher of local newspaper Novy Reft in Sverdlovsk Region, was found dead (shot in the back) on September 18. He often criticized local officials and had received threatening telephone phone calls prior to the murder. [27] 2001
and there are more yet.
more journalist killed.
• Vladimir Yatsina, February 20, 2000. A correspondent for ITAR-TASS, he was kidnapped and later killed by a group of Wahhabis in Chechnya [24]
• Aleksandr Yefremov, May 12, 2000, Chechnya. A photojournalist of the western Siberian newspaper Nashe Vremya was killed in Chechnya when rebels blew up a military jeep in which he was riding. On previous assignments, Yefremov had won acclaim for his news photographs from the war-torn region.[citation needed]
• Igor Domnikov, from Novaya Gazeta, July 16, 2000, Moscow. Unknown assassin hit him repeatedly on the head with a hammer in the entryway of his apartment building in Moscow. The killer was never found. It is believed that the assailant mistook Domnikov for a Novaya Gazeta reporter Oleg Sultanov who received threats from the FSB for his reporting on corruption in the Russian oil industry.[6]
• Sergey Novikov, Radio Vesna, July 26, 2000, Smolensk. He was shot and killed in the stairwell of his apartment building. He often criticized the government of Smolensk Region.[citation needed]
• Iskandar Khatloni, Radio Free Europe, September 21, 2000, Moscow. He was killed at night with axe in his Moscow apartment by an unknown assailant. The motive of the murder is unknown, but Khatloni work on stories about the human-rights abuses in Chechnya.[25]
whats to worry about?
Viktor Yushchenko's, Litvinenko,
Journalist killed
Sergey Bogdanovsky, correspondent of TV "Ostankino", killed in Moscow 1995
1996
• Rory Peck, ARD Germany operator, killed in Moscow on 3 October[18]
• Ivan Scopan, TF-1 France operator, killed in Moscow on 3 October[18]
• Igor Belozerov, 4th Channel Ostankino, killed in Moscow on 3 October[18]
• Sergey Krasilnikov, editor of TV "Ostankino", killed in Moscow on 3 October[18]
• Vladimir Drobyshev, "People and nature" journal, killed in Moscow on 3 October[18]
• Alexander Sidelnikov, freelance journalist from Saint Petersburg, killed in Moscow on 4 October[18]
• Alexander Smirnov, Yoshkar-Ola based Youth Courier newspaper, killed in Moscow on 4 October[18]
• Elena Tkacheva, proof-reader for Kuban Courier newspaper, killed in Krasnodar on 29 November as a result of a bomb exploding in the newspapers building[18]
• Marina Iskanderova, journalist of a local TV station, murdered in her apartment in Nadym in December[18]
• Dmitry Krikoryants, correspondent for Express Chronicle journal, murdered in his own apartment in Chechnya on 14 or 15 April.[18
Vladislav Listyev, head of the ORT TV Channel, killed in Moscow on March 1, 1995
Silly man, if it were true, you would not be doing interviews. Stop p.issing on his leg and that paranoia may subside in time.
reported by FOX of an interview given to The London Times
BOTH owned by ultra conservative right wing war monger Ruport Murdoch
WHATEVER!
Can you blame him..?
Could it be that Mikhail Saakashvili is in support of NATO and that undercuts Putin's interests.
(i didn't take the time to read the article, so...)
Both France and Germany opposed Georgia's membership of Nato. It really had nothing to do with Nato's interests at all. The UK acted as the usual fellow traveler of the NEOCONs. It was about NEOCON interests you know the like of Bush, Bolton, Cherney, Rice. NEOCONs were simply rewarding Georgia's support in Iraq and at the same time trying to subvert Russia's interests and promoting interests of BigOil. There is nothing like an external enemy during US election time to scare the population into voting for the Republicans. With the number of support personnel present in Georgia it is simply not credible that the US missed the buildup of Georgia's forces around Ossetia. Rice visited Georgia in July 2008. August 2008 that Saakashvili initiated the attack on Ossetia.
There is a pattern there: Rice visited Ukraine mid December 2008 shortly before the most recent spat about gas transit to sign a protocol which was among others to support the gas transit system overhaul. Rice cannot even deny that the transit system was a subject of discussion. By the way the State department has removed that protocol, but you can still find it Google's cached pages.
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First Posted: 08- 8-09 03:21 PM | Updated: 08- 8-09 03:30 PM