From: "George Sherwood" 

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:29:14 +0100, Adam wrote:

> George Sherwood wrote:
>> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:11:31 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
>>
>>>> And not a peep out of Phil.  If he wants to see all the things that
>>>> he claims are happening in the US really happening, just look to
>>>> Russia.
>>> Phil only reassembled and powered on his email system a few minutes
>>> ago after a 36-hour trip to Cumbria.
>>>
>>> What I find amazing (and deeply worrying) is an ongoing trend in
>>> American thought that reduces the whole process of justice to a hunch.
>>>
>>> Not only are you all prepared to pronounce people guilty without trial
>>> - you now don't even appear to require an interrogation.  This is
>>> sick.
>>
>> GMAFB, you are the king of jumping to conclusions.  If this was a
>> reporter critical of President Bush you would have already finished him
>> off. Putin's Russia is a dangerous place to be a journalist.
>>
>>
> Shrug. Chechnya is a dangerous place to be a human. Not as angerous as
> Iraq but still dangerous.

But she wasn't in Chechnya. I didn't realize that Moscow was such a
dangerous place.  Glad I didn't go there.


> & where is Iraq on that list?

Looks like in either first place or second.  Lets see though.  War in Irag,
War or something close in Algeria.  Didn't realize that Russia was like
those two places.  Would be interesting to know how many were killed in
Chechnya.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100900424
.html

Russia is the third most deadly country for journalists, after Iraq and
Algeria, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists,
which says Politkovskaya was at least the 43rd journalist killed for her
work in Russia since 1993.

Dangerous to be a banker in Russia also.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&symbol=&storyID=200
6-09-14T082448Z_01_L14533907_RTRIDST_0_RUSSIA-BANKER-UPDATE-6-PICTURE.XML&pageN
umber=0&WTModLoc=InvArt-C1-ArticlePage3&sz=13

A top Russian central banker who fought to clean up Russia's murky banking
system died early on Thursday from gunshot wounds after being ambushed by
assassins in what police said was a contract 'hit'.


> What is your fascination with Russia anyway? 

It is more trying to figure out your fascination.   It really is a
mess there, much more then I think people realize.


> BTW it has all the hallmarks of the younger President Kadyrov. You know
> what these "sons of previous Presidents in the Caucasus" are like.....

I don't think you follow "sons of previous Presidents in the
Caucasus" as close as you let on. It is really easy to pigeonhole some
one like President Aliyev, but I am telling you it is a mistake from
observing up close.

George

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