Russian Political Murders - Putin
Putin's history of political murders should make Americans think very carefully about accepting anything from Putin: Murders by Putin: A Brief History of Putintime, La Russophobe March 1997 45-year-old former KGB agent Vladimir Putin (pictured, left) is plucked from obscurity out of the St. Petersburg local government apparatus by President Boris Yeltsin and named Deputy Chief of Staff. In June, he defends his PhD dissertation in “strategic planning” at St. Petersburg’s Mining Institute. Later, this document proves to have been plagiarized from a KGB translation of work by U.S. professors published many years earlier (as if nobody would notice, and in fact for quite a while nobody did). July 1998 In a second inexplicable move, Yeltsin names Putin head of the KGB (now called the FSB). November 1998 Less than four months after Putin takes over at the KGB, opposition Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova (pictured, right), the most prominent pro-democracy Kremlin critic in the