Pavel Felgenhauer, one of Russia’s greatest living patriots, writing on the Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor (the sixth paragraph is where the explosion comes). Make no mistake: Felgenhauer is risking his life by writing these words, and writes them because that is how much he loves his country.
On Monday, January 19, at around 3:00 P.M., a Novaya Gazeta reporter Anastasiya Baburova, 25, and a prominent human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, 34, were shot in the head in a Moscow street some half a mile from the Kremlin by a masked gunman with a silencer-fitted pistol. Baburova and Markelov were walking together toward a metro station after a press conference at which Markelov had criticized the early release on January 15 of former Russian Colonel Yuri Budanov, a tank commander convicted and imprisoned in 2003 on charges of murdering a young Chechen girl named Elza Kungayeva in 2000.
La Russophobe 