From: "Rich Gauszka" 

yet another FSB warning to reporters?

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/03/06/070306201334.qse2sfab.html

 A Russian reporter who died after falling out of a window was investigating
sales of weapons by Russia to Syria and Iran, his newspaper Kommersant said Tuesday.
Ivan Safronov had told his newspaper that he had "received
information" about the sale of Sukhoi-34 fighter jets to Syria and
S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran via Belarus.

he business daily said the arms were being sold "via Belarus to avoid
the west accusing Russia of arming rogue states". Safronov, a former
colonel, specialised in writing about the army and space.

Russian prosecutors on Monday opened an investigation into the
"incitement to suicide" of Safronov.

But his newspaper has dismissed claims that he committed suicide, while
Russian journalists union the SJR said Tuesday it might conduct its own
inquiry.

"From what we know already it is clear it was not suicide," the
union's Secretary General Igor Yakovenko told Moscow Echo radio.

"The chances that it was a murder linked to the exercise of his
profession are very high," he added.

Kommersant said Safronov had called from a major Middle East arms fair in
Abu Dhabi in late February to say that he had "irrefutable
confirmation" of the sales.

On his return to Moscow he had spoken to his colleagues of the
"signature by Russia and Syria of contracts for the Pantsir CI
anti-aircraft system, Mig-29 fighter jets and Iskander tactical
missiles," it said.

However, he told his colleagues he could not write the story immediately
because he had been warned about the risk of an international scandal and
an inquiry by the FSB security service for divulging secrets.

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