ISSUES....
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Moscow 's assassinations

- Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead on Saturday, Oct 6, at her apartment block in central Moscow. "The first thing that comes to mind is that Anna was killed for her professional activities. We don't see any other motive for this terrible crime," said Vitaly Yaroshevsky, a deputy editor of the newspaper where Politkovskaya worked. Politkovskaya, won international fame and numerous prizes for her dogged pursuit of rights abuses by Putin's government, particularly in the violent southern province of Chechnya. The gravevine said that Politkovskaya had written an article on Russian atrocities in Chechnya due to be published Monday, Oct. 9.

- Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was rush to a hospital due poisoning, shortly after he had lunch on Nov. 1 with a man who gave him documents related to the recent killing of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist. British police have placed him under protective guard at a London hospital.

- Galina Starovoitova, courageous, internationally known human-rights campaigner , gunned down in her lobby, in St. Petersburg, in 1998.

- Andrei Kozlov, who campaigned against bank crime, was shot dead in Moscow.

- The attempted murder by poison of Ukrainian politician Viktor Yushchenko in the run-up to the Orange Revolution- He accused the Kremlin.

- a former Chechen leader, Movlady Baisarov was shot dead on, saturday, Nov. 17, on Moscow's busy Leninsky Prospekt by a group of Chechen police officers from Russia's interior ministry that had been sent to track him down.

- Zelimkhan Magomedov, 50, head of the National Oil Institute Fund, was killed Nov. 13, with two shots to the head in southwest Moscow

The uncontrolled government media has the Kremlin as the prime suspect.

You get the picture.

Petroleumworld 11 21 06

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