In Moscow, Top Journalist Knifed to Death

[ECH1969]

The business chief of Russian news agency Itar-Tass, Anatoly Voronin, was killed on Sunday night in his apartment in central Moscow, the agency reported. Death was the result of multiple knife wounds, according to police, Itar-Tass reported.

The body of 55-year-old Voronin was found at his home by his driver, the news agency said. He had worked at the agency for 23 years. His death is the latest in a spate of high-profile killings in Russia in little over a month.

The journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a critic of President Putin, was shot in the entranceway of her apartment building on October 7. Leaders from around the world including President Bush called on the Russian government to carry out a thorough investigation to find her killers. No arrests have yet been made.

http://www.nysun.com/article/41704

[greeneyedboy]

1. yikes. talk about a chilling effect on the media.

[Bucky]

2. Not a safe place to be a journalist

Not as bad as Iraq, mind you. But in Russia the fight against corruption and totalitarianism is personal.

[Vexatious Ape]

3. Bush wanted this investigated? Bullshit

Leaders from around the world including President Bush called on the Russian government to carry out a thorough investigation to find her killers. No arrests have yet been made.

I think the chimp and his hominid buddy's dreams of being able to get away with something like this. They hate the press.

[lvx35]

4. There goes perestroika, glasnost.

russia opened up to the world under gorby, and we offered back Bush. Now they are like "why the hell did we give up 1/3 of the world?" They want their Soviet Union back.

[ECH1969]

5. yup