 Hundreds
of people called on the authorities to find and punish the killers of
journalists and human rights activists in Russia, rallying Wednesday to
commemorate the third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya.
“The authorities are incapable of solving such crimes,” former Prime
Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said. “Even the most honest investigator
cannot solve the crime because the government won’t let him.”
Prosecutors have said little about who might have ordered the
contract-style killing on Oct. 7, 2006, while the suspected gunman is
believed to be hiding in Europe. Three men accused of playing minor
roles in the killing remain under investigation.
Since Politkovskaya’s death, at least seven journalists and human
rights activists have been killed in Russia, including one who wrote
for the same newspaper, Novaya Gazeta. “There is a political will
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 Maxim has contacts in the customs department as, it seems, do a lot of people.
Not long after Cherkizovsky Market was closed down, shops offering
customs goods started appearing all over Moscow. All the brands you
could desire and all at prices that made you wonder why anyone would
ever pay more than 600 rubles ($20) for Adodas trainers, let alone Noke
or Ribok.
The shops’ names hinted that they were trading in confiscated
customs goods, but it was just a way to get rid of goods leftover from
the market, according to a charmingly in-depth investigation by
Komsomolskaya Pravda, which tracked down the owner, a former
Cherkizovsky trader, and asked him if they could sell dodgy tracksuits
in his shops.
He said, “Yes, of course,” but only after threatening to burn down
their shop if they dared to open a similar kind of operation. So, here
we have a sel
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A ``Robin Hood`` banker who stole
$340,000 (£214,000) and apparently gave it all away to needy customers
has been sentenced to a year and a day in jail, according to Telegraph.co.uk. Patricia
Keezer, 53, embezzled cash over an eight-year period while managing a
bank branch near Detroit, giving customers $2,000 (£1,257) at a time
for car repairs, mortgage payments and other such concerns. In
court, district judge Marianne Battani imposed a more lenient sentence
than prosecutors wanted, stating that the thief was ``like a modern day
Robin Hood``. But she added that the days of stealing from the rich to
give to the poor were ``long over``. Keezer`s crime spree ended last year when the embezzlement was uncovered. Authorities
said she covered her tracks by falsifyi
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