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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: Can we call it fascism yet? |
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Police Seize Drafts of Books on Putin
MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian journalist said Friday that law enforcement officials searched his apartment and carted off computers that contained draft chapters of two books he was writing about President Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Pribylovsky said he was told the seizures were part of an investigation into the unsolved slaying of a former senior official of the main successor agency to the KGB.
But Pribylovsky, who runs a Web site critical of the Kremlin, said he suspects officials were really interested in finding out what he planned to publish about Putin.
"I believe that they wanted to read what I was writing," he told The Associated Press.
The Moscow prosecutor's office declined to comment.
Pribylovsky said he had previously written about the killing of Col.- Gen. Anatoly Trofimov, a former deputy head of the Federal Security Service shot in 2005 by a masked gunman outside his Moscow home. The author said that he agreed to remove some materials relating to the case from his Web site three months ago at the request of officials.
The working titles for the books are "Putin's Comrades," and "Operation Successor," said Pribylovsky, who was working on the latter with Yuri Felshtinsky, a historian and author living in the United States.
Felshtinsky told the AP that his co-author's computers contained "a huge volume of information" on ranking government officials.
"There is a lot of very interesting and important information, which might be lost because they could drag on the investigation, any investigation, for some years now, and the idea was to publish the book before the election," Felshtinsky said.
Felshtinsky co-authored a book, "Blowing Up Russia," with Alexander Litvinenko, who died in a London hospital in November after being poisoned with radioactive polonium-210. The book alleged that Russian security forces had played a role in a series of mysterious bombings of apartment buildings in Russia in 1999 that killed more than 300 people. The explosions were blamed on Chechen rebels and served as a key reason for the Kremlin to launch the second war in Chechnya. |
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PG5VL00&show_article=1
This is the second time in 70 years that Russia is heading towards total disaster. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I have no sympathy for that country. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:24 am Post subject: |
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Remember that game we aLL PLAYED AS KIDS?
Mammy may i take 2 big steps? ( etc )
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:50 am Post subject: |
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I thought this thread was about Korea.
heh heh.
The Russian men i've known have actually been solid racists at heart. Quite disturbing. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| BWJD wrote: |
| Can we call it fascism yet? |
Not unless it's about George Bush... |
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