A piece of news which might seem of interest only to the gun-nut and the real obsessive actually has rather greater significance: the Russian police are phasing out their old Makarov pistols and Kalashnikov rifles with new weapons.
So what? (more…)
All posts for the month October, 2008
New guns for Russia’s cops – so what?
Posted by Mark Galeotti on October 23, 2008
http://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/new-guns-for-russias-cops-so-what/
‘Contract killing is a continuation of business by other means’
It goes against the grain, but sometimes – rarely – I feel Putin and the Russian security apparatus deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt. On 6 October, the interesting but often-sensationalist Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta ran an article ‘Registered Speciality – the Killer’ which claimed that the Russian spetsluzhby, the security agencies, now routinely murder enemies of the Kremlin. The author, Novaya gazeta’s military affairs editor Vyacheslav Izmailov, pulls together a varied collection of killings and kidnappings and asserts that the same sinister hand is behind them all.
Posted by Mark Galeotti on October 11, 2008
http://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/contract-killing-is-a-continuation-of-business-by-other-means/
