The authorities said Mr. Yevloyev had been shot accidentally while trying to take away a police officer’s gun, but human rights campaigners said he had been killed in retribution for running a Web site [Ingushetiya.ru] that reported on widespread allegations of abuses, abductions and killings in Ingushetia.
NYT World Briefing re Russia: Journalist’s Killing Protested.
"The journalist, Magomed Yevloyev, died Sunday after police officers picked him up at an airport in Ingushetia Province in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus and left him on a road with a gunshot wound in his head."
And in other news: Putin shoots tiger, saving TV crew »
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Actually, a Norwegian expert on animal sedation says that the official story of what happened, as reported by Norwegian newspapers, is not possible. There is no way Putin could have sedated a tiger as fast as he supposedly did if it was that close. It would have taken at least five minutes for the tranquilizer to take effect. So basically it's propaganda, and the news team and the scientists are probably in on it.
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