BREAKING: Putin: Snowden in Transit Zone of Moscow Airport, Russia Will Not Extradite Him.

[kyeshinka]

39. Russia doesn't change

No more journalists have been killed on Putin's watch than on Yeltsin's. They still haven't closed the book on Dmitry Kholodov (and they won't) or more than three dozen killed during the White House seige of 1993. The monument behind the Federation building is really sad--many of those journalists were in their 20s. So while it's appropriate to attack Putin, let's remember that Yeltsin was no saint, either, and mafia wars killed a lot of people in the 90s. It may have been worse than in the czarist days when writers were expected to off each other in duels, like Pushkin. I suppose that was more chivalrous--the ONLY way a proud Russian muzhik should go.