Russian Journalist: FSB Wanted to Kill Me
Created: 10.09.2004 20:17 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 20:17 MSK, 23 hours 11 minutes ago
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya who got seriously sick while trying to get to Beslan on a day of the school siege suspects the agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of having poisoned her.
Speaking to the RTL Radio France on Friday, she told she asked a cup of tea and fainted soon after having drunk. “In the hospital, a physician told me of a serious poisoning with an unidentified toxic agent. I suspect three FSB officials who were on the same plane in the business class of involvement in this vile act. One of them asked the air hostess a question, the other put a pill into the cup. It dissolves in a moment, and it is a miracle that I survived. I am sure: they wanted to kill me,” Politkovskaya said.
She added she did not make any secret that she planned to start negotiations with terrorists in the South Russian town of Beslan. But she could not believe the special services could act like this. At the same time, she was sure her colleague Yuri Shchekochikhin who died last July was also poisoned. However, the reasons of his death are still unclear.
The rest of the article is here.
Perhaps the most poignant part of it is right at the end, with Politkovskaya's own words:
“We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it’s total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial — whatever our special services, Putin’s guard dogs, see fit,” Politkovskaya wrote.
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