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Can there really be any doubt any longer that the Russian government is returning swiftly to its past practices of eliminating its enemies, Mafia-style, and that our
admonition to the world to know that "once KGB, always KGB" when it comes to President Putin. It was one thing to have Alexander Litvenenko killed using a deadly radioactive poison; it was another to have Anna Politkovskaya killed, and it is now another to have Paul Joyal, the Editor in Chief of the Daily Report on
Russia and the former Soviet Republics (www.dailyreportonrussia.com, a business intelligence newsletter published daily for many years), killed in cold blood in the driveway of his home outside of Washington D.C. late last week. The authorities are trying to call this a "drive-by" shooting... a "random robbery attempt," and/or "a street shooting." We suppose that that is possible, but Mr. Joyal only last week appeared on national television here in the US and accused the Putin regime of "silencing its critics" via murder, extortion, etc. To believe that Mr. Joyal's death is random is naiveté of the very first order, and to have the authorities in the US try to paint it as such is worse..

From Dennis Gartman of The Gartman Letter L.C.

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