In other news, it would seem the journalists all over the world are getting whacked.

Publisher's write-up:
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin’s corruption.

Bill Browder’s journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union’s collapse. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the companies in which he was investing, Vladimir Putin turned on him and, in 2005, had him expelled from Russia.

In 2007, a group of law enforcement officers raided Browder’s offices in Moscow and stole $230 million of taxes that his fund’s companies had paid to the Russian government. Browder’s attorney Sergei Magnitsky investigated the incident and uncovered a sprawling criminal enterprise. A month after Sergei testified against the officials involved, he was arrested and thrown into pre-trial detention, where he was tortured for a year. On November 16, 2009, he was led to an isolation chamber, handcuffed to a bedrail, and beaten to death by eight guards in full riot gear.

Browder glimpsed the heart of darkness, and it transformed his life: he embarked on an unrelenting quest for justice in Sergei’s name, exposing the towering cover-up that leads right up to Putin. A financial caper, a crime thriller, and a political crusade, Red Notice is the story of one man taking on overpowering odds to change the world.

The Dutch film company - Zembla - documentary on Trump and Russian oligarch money laundering.

http://dai.ly/x5m5efw

Thanks for this!

I just finished reading Browder's book a few days ago and it's all still fresh in my mind.
He does mention the Dutch film production in his book. I learned quite a bit about the "new" Russia recently.
I hope we don't become anything like them.

Common sense.

There's a part 2 - also - at Zembla.

"Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin," by Russian journalist/activist Masha Gesson. (2012) She chronicles the rise of Putin from his earliest days to presidernt of Russia. Fascinating, but disturbing, reading.

You never know when his Russian pals might have decided he has outlived his usefulness, and planted a few grams in inconvenient places..........

As they say, lay down with dogs...

This guy is a fucking monster who worked for the KGB. Underestimating Russia is one of the most catastrophic mistakes in US history.

Instead of taking the leadership in worldwide condemnation?? What have we come to??

Are all his friends, and fine and nice people. He wants so badly to be like them its really disturbing. HE'll now protect whatever the Prince did to this journalists now. If its proven he knew this was going to be done by approving , or knowingly accepted and did nothing to stop it would make him an accomplice. He'll claim something as an way to make it sound like he cares, but again its all show. Its almost always another act for trump acting like he really cares , when everyone knows he really could care less. If he said what he really wanted to , he would be saying that they probably deserved it just to make people upset, and for shock value.