Six people are suspected of involvement in the case – former police officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, Chechen-born Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, former police officer Sergei Kadzhikurbanov and the Makhmudov brothers, one of whom is alleged to have been the killer. None of them have been brought to justice.
It should be noted that Anna Politkovskaya did not “only” criticize Putin personally. She covered all of the Russian elite and the Chechen war in her reporting. She knew how all of the Russian ruling class was tied together, how Putin had risen to power and how they were undermining democracy and freedom.
Yes, she did an exceptional work. In 2004, she published her book ‘Putin’s Russia’, and a year ago the French newspaper ‘Le Monde’ published an extract for those interested.
She actually lived long. Say, Alexander Lebed’ died in a helicopter crash in 2002, and Galina Starovoytova was killed in 1998, and similarly bad things (or just their marginalization and presentation as nutjobs by mass media, like with Novodvorskaya and Stomakhin) happened to most of people with actual political potential and spine from the Russian 90s.
This will be lit when the Tankies show up.
I always wonder how it’s possible to get so many people to do shitty things like this when they know i5s morally wrong. I suppose you just need a handful of people with no morals.
Prevalence of psychopathy is estimated at something like 5%. In Russia we’re talking at least 7.5 million psychopaths. Add to that those who suffered neglect or abuse and have a lack of empathy, not exactly given Russian history, and I doubt it’d be that hard to find the kind of person willing to rape or murder for a mars bar.
We usually don’t use the world psychopathy anymore in this context. It’s now referred to as anti social personality disorder.
Not in the DSM, I know. Here’s the article I took it from after a quick google:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661044/full
Wikipedia suggests that ASPD can be three times more common than ‘psychopathy’, because they’re not entirely the same thing. The two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, which causes confusion. So I used the term used in the article I found, rather than assuming they meant APSD.
TLDR: people who lack empathy are not particularly rare.
Lucy Kassa, whose unwavering commitment to speak truth to power and expose the mass rape of women in Tigray and the killing of civilians, has made her a target for those who want to silence journalists and rule Ethiopia by the force of the gun.
