Thursday, September 04, 2008

A High Price for Conscience: Two More Russian Journalists Killed

In what is an alarming yet all-too-common tragedy, two more Russian journalists (both critical of Russian political actions) have been killed, one in a nighttime shooting by the usual "unknown assailants" and the other "accidentally shot in the head while resisting arrest."

Add these deaths to the other 220 journalists who have been killed in Russia just since 1991...and you see plenty of evidence of Russia's enduring addictions to violence, injustice, corruption and cover-ups.