Archive for September 23rd, 2008
Politkovskaya Case Will Soon Go to Court
By Sean at 23 September, 2008, 10:10 pm
The state newspaper Rossiiskaya gazeta announced yesterday that the Anna Politkovskaya murder case will soon go to court.
An official representative from the Investigation Committee saidthat charges have been made against three people: Sergei Khadzhikurbanov (he bought the murder weapon), and Dzhabrail and Ibrahim Makhmudov (they were accomplices). Former FSB agent Pavel Riaguzov, who is accused [...]
Portraits of Power
By Sean at 23 September, 2008, 8:27 am
Medvedev and Putin looking Presidential
Dmitri Medvedev is not just President of Russia. Nor is he simply a rising global interlocutor. He, or really his visage, is also the subject to the whims of the marketplace. According to Kommersant Vlast,
People are even trying to sell the portrait of the President of Russia using spam. Evidently, the [...]
