"This is our first real victory. I congratulate you for overcoming your fear. We will have victory when we get our Russia back. We have 364 days before the election in 2008," – Garry Kasparov, one of the few liberal opponents of Putin’s authoritarian government not to have been assassinated.
Another Putin critic was shot in Washington yesterday. The cuplrits could be local hoodlums or Putin’s thugs. The victim survived, which suggests local hoodlums. Putin’s men tend to get the job done.
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