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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:08 PM Apr 2018

Natasha Bertrand tweet on what dead Russian journalist was investigating:

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Text: Russian reporter who died after falling from his fifth-floor balcony had been investigating allegations about Deripaska and Manafort made by Belarusian escort Nastya Rybka
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Natasha Bertrand tweet on what dead Russian journalist was investigating: (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2018 OP
When Putin kills these people and we know rump works for putin, i wonder how Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1
That doesn't seem to be a big enough issue to kill BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #2
Putins chef - Yevgeniy Prigozhin - runs the mercs: Leghorn21 Apr 2018 #4
If he is involved than you know BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #5
Putin, Trump and all their mobsters can not be trusted Farmer-Rick Apr 2018 #3
i feel certain he was murdered. barbtries Apr 2018 #6
I've thought all along this kind of thing is the main reason Manafort RandomAccess Apr 2018 #7
The OP forgot to paste the text in. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2018 #8
BBC Photo of the journalist. He looks harrowingly young. applegrove Apr 2018 #12
Thanks and thanks for raising awareness of this (yet another) case. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2018 #19
Russia should be stripped from hosting the World cup this summer. Mr. Sparkle Apr 2018 #9
Britain has pulled its team out of it. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2018 #18
The US has done their part by refusing to field a team good enough blake2012 Apr 2018 #22
Enough of this shit. If only there wasn't Putin's puppet in the WH iluvtennis Apr 2018 #10
For some reason, I am reminded of a line from John Irving .. Hotel New Hampshire DemoTex Apr 2018 #11
Oh, well his door was locked from the inside, so ... must be legit ... mr_lebowski Apr 2018 #13
Hello! Balcony. applegrove Apr 2018 #14
Exactly ... although that'd have been a high risk of being seen ... mr_lebowski Apr 2018 #15
Yea, not sure how they would be able to tell if door was locked from inside or outside. LisaL Apr 2018 #20
This SOB murders with complete impunity. GRRRRRRRRRRR Ferrets are Cool Apr 2018 #16
Vladimir Putin needs to be crushed and bottled. byronius Apr 2018 #17
Why didn't Rachel talk about it?? triron Apr 2018 #21

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. When Putin kills these people and we know rump works for putin, i wonder how
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:11 PM
Apr 2018

someone who claims to love justice can still support them.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
4. Putins chef - Yevgeniy Prigozhin - runs the mercs:
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:35 PM
Apr 2018

Putin ‘s Chef” yet AGAIN:

In intercepted communications in late January, the oligarch, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, told a senior Syrian official that he had “secured permission” from an unspecified Russian minister to move forward with a “fast and strong” initiative that would take place in early February.

Prigozhin made front-page headlines last week when he was indicted by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III on charges of bankrolling and guiding a long-running Russian scheme to conduct “information warfare” during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.


He is known to have close ties to Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, forged when he was a restaurateur in St. Petersburg and expanded through what became Prigozhin’s wide-ranging business empire, including extensive contracts with Russia’s Defense Ministry.

Among his various enterprises, U.S. intelligence believes that Prigozhin also “almost certainly” controls Russian mercenaries fighting in Syria on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad. The mercenaries, employed by a company called Wagner, comprise ultra­nationalist Russians and military veterans, some of whom also fought in the Ukraine conflict, according to Russian news reports.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/putin-ally-said-to-be-in-touch-with-kremlin-assad-before-his-mercenaries-attacked-us-troops/2018/02/22/f4ef050c-1781-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html?utm_term=.1281ff718a18


...so, Prigozhin ran/runs the Internet Research Agency in I believe St. Petersburg and helps manage these mercenaries,, and I have no idea about the model in Thailand, but if this guy’s involved, who would be surprised -

I hate this SOB.

Farmer-Rick

(10,192 posts)
3. Putin, Trump and all their mobsters can not be trusted
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:21 PM
Apr 2018

Why would anyone choose to work for them? They smile at you today and kill you off tomorrow. It's like choosing to work for the devil...the father of lies. Murders from the beginning.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
7. I've thought all along this kind of thing is the main reason Manafort
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:03 PM
Apr 2018

isn't yielding to pressure to succumb to Mueller's obvious charms.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,011 posts)
8. The OP forgot to paste the text in.
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:14 PM
Apr 2018

Here it is:

Russian reporter who died after falling from his fifth-floor balcony had been investigating allegations about Deripaska and Manafort made by Belarusian escort Nastya Rybka (and exposed by @navalny)


And there is something (image, vid?) part of the tweet that I can't see. I wonder what it is.

Mr. Sparkle

(2,935 posts)
9. Russia should be stripped from hosting the World cup this summer.
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:28 PM
Apr 2018

They are not fit and proper to host this prestigious tournament. Russia is run by a Mafia.

DemoTex

(25,399 posts)
11. For some reason, I am reminded of a line from John Irving .. Hotel New Hampshire
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:34 PM
Apr 2018

"Keep passing open windows." Different context. But, what the hell ..

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
13. Oh, well his door was locked from the inside, so ... must be legit ...
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:51 PM
Apr 2018

Cause you can totally TELL 'which side' doors are 'locked from' ... there's no way someone could've gotten his key from him in the process of killing him and locked it ... from the outside. Impossibruh!!!

Not to mention, commando-looking dudes in his building the day before? Hello?

What a travesty.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
15. Exactly ... although that'd have been a high risk of being seen ...
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:59 PM
Apr 2018

Then again, no one in Russia is likely to run to the press to rat out the commando seen rappelling down the building's side ... right after someone in the press was thrown off the building. They also could've set up a cushion to jump down onto, 5 floors not too high for that ... esp. not for trained professionals ...

Whole thing stinks ...

LisaL

(44,973 posts)
20. Yea, not sure how they would be able to tell if door was locked from inside or outside.
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 11:46 PM
Apr 2018

Unless there was a chain on the inside of the door. Otherwise somebody could have locked it from outside using a key.

byronius

(7,395 posts)
17. Vladimir Putin needs to be crushed and bottled.
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 10:15 PM
Apr 2018

And I have a feeling it's going to happen. When the sanctions hit (should we recover from the Knife In The Back Named Trump) he won't be able to pay his private murder army. Suddenly all the oligarchs lose their stashes and perks and leverage as well. Shark tank!

Maybe the best revenge is justice for Russia's wrongs as well as ours. Real democracy is always bitterly resented by fascists and oligarchs. They truly fear it. Shall we not inflict their greatest fear on them?

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