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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNatasha 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
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)someone who claims to love justice can still support them.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)someone over.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)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 Prigozhins wide-ranging business empire, including extensive contracts with Russias 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 guys involved, who would be surprised -
I hate this SOB.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)it was no accident. He is another oligarch/murderer.
Farmer-Rick
(10,192 posts)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.
barbtries
(28,799 posts)i hope there will be justice for him some day.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)isn't yielding to pressure to succumb to Mueller's obvious charms.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)Here it is:
And there is something (image, vid?) part of the tweet that I can't see. I wonder what it is.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)Mr. Sparkle
(2,935 posts)They are not fit and proper to host this prestigious tournament. Russia is run by a Mafia.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)To make it to the World Cup.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)DemoTex
(25,399 posts)"Keep passing open windows." Different context. But, what the hell ..
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)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.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)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)Unless there was a chain on the inside of the door. Otherwise somebody could have locked it from outside using a key.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)I hate that MFer.
byronius
(7,395 posts)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?