Putin kills another journalist. Con artist wets pants in glee

[someoneyouknow]

Nikolai Andrushchenko, 73, has died six weeks after being attacked in St. Petersubrg, Russia. What makes him so special? Andrushchenko was a prominent Russian photojournalist and co-founder and editor of Novy Peterburg, an independent newspaper which reported on the endemic corruption inherent in the Putin regime.

This wasn't the first time Andrushchenko had faced off with Putin. In 2007 he was jailed on trumped up charges of defamation and obstruction of justice when he covered a murder trial in St. Petersburg. Police illegally raided his business and home, then claimed he had defamed public officials in St. Petersburg. This raid just happened to coincide with upcoming elections in which Andrushchenko had written pro-opposition articles in his paper.

Andrushchenko is another in a long line of journalists and independent news providers to be attacked, jailed or killed in Russia since Putin's rise. The most famous of these is the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a strong opposition leader who, a day or so before he was to release a report detailing the massive corruption of Putin and his oligarch friends, was gunned down in front of the Kremlin on Putin's orders.

When asked to comment on this string of dead journalists and the suppression of the media in Russia, the con artist had no comment about his election bro, though a small smirk could be seen as he turned away for another round of golf.

https://pen.org/rapid-action/pretrial-detention-of-editor-nikolai-andrushchenko-extended/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-putin-critic-nikolai-andrushchenko-dies-after-beaten-up-by-strangers-a7691461.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-journalist-dies-from-injuries-sustained-in-march-attack/

 

[Iceprincess12]

At least he lived to 73. So many weren't as fortunate.

 

[AnAmericanDarling]

At least he lived to 73. So many weren't as fortunate.

Do you know how ridiculous you sound? "Well, it's okay that he was attacked, just as long as he was old." Baloney.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

*reads*


Russian Journalist, Putin Critic Dies After Severe Beating

April 19, 2017


Nikolai Andrushchenko, a 73-year-old co-founder of the weekly newspaper Novy Petersburg, had been unconscious since he was attacked on March 9.

Andrushchenko’s colleagues and his lawyer say he underwent brain surgery after the attack and initially had been connected to a ventilator, but later was able to breath on his own.

However, they said he never regained consciousness and died on April 19


https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-journalist-andrushchenko-dies-severe-beating/28439320.html


"No other reporter has been assigned Anna Politkovskaya’s desk in Novaya Gazeta’s newsroom. It remains as a memorial, alongside her photograph and those of other murdered journalists at the newspaper, and as a reminder of the danger of the work.

In September, Elena Kostyuchenko, a reporter with Novaya, travelled to Beslan in North Ossetia to cover the 12th anniversary of the siege in which 334 people died, including 186 children.


Politkovskaya had attempted to make the same journey back in 2004, but fainted on the plane on her way there. Doctors believe she was poisoned to prevent her from reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...utin-press-kremlin-grip-russia-media-tightens


Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's most fearless journalists, was gunned down in a contract killing in Moscow


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...an-journalist-anna-politkovskaya-9535772.html

"The moment news broke of Anna Politkovskaya’s murder, suspicions of culpability raced off in two different directions. The most obvious led to the Kremlin, if not to President Putin himself; that 7 October is his birthday fuelled speculation about someone perhaps offering a macabre present."


Politkovskaya’s son, Ilya, said: “We will never consider the case closed unless the person or persons who ordered her killed are found and tried .”

 

[Iceprincess12]

It almost seems like the same story, but since I didn't read it the first time...

 

[Iceprincess12]

Do you know how ridiculous you sound? "Well, it's okay that he was attacked, just as long as he was old." Baloney.

Don't you worry luv, I try to take ridiculous to an art form