The “Autumn of Assassination”
Last week it was Litvinenko, this week it’s Yegor Gaidar. November has been the month of political intrigue, assassination, conspiracy theory, paranoia, hysteria, all with some hard political analysis mixed along the way. If the temporal lens is widened, one might suggest that this is Russia’s “Autumn of Assassination” Though the jury is still out on whether Gaidar belongs in a lineage of political killings that include Andrei Kozlov, Anna Politkovskaya, Aleksandr Litvinenko, and the lesser commented on, Movladi Baisarov, the fall has been drenched in blood. After all, it was already in early October that Kommersant declared it the “Season for Settling Scores,” as Kozlov’s murder was rated the most significant event for that economic quarter. Little did the business daily know that Kozlov was only the beginning.
But all eyes are now on Gaidar and whether he was poisoned or ..read more
