[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Russian journalist and author Anna Politkovskaya explaining her position (before she was assassinated):
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/s...920799,00.html

Duncan

[Tim Murphy]

Terrible tragedy. It is heartbreaking to see Russia going backward at light speed. That's what you get when you put a great nation under the dictatorial control of a closeted little KGB officer.

[Alan Sullivan]

The murder is not a tragedy, but a crime -- in fact a political assassination, almost certainly carried out by orders from the highest level.

The tragedy is Russian history, repeating itself.