RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – April 6, 2010
TODAY: Ingushetia double bombings still unclaimed; new law bans media from printing terrorists’ statements; Khodorkovsky article investigated for ‘extremism’; drivers protest against flashing blue lights of government cars; protests a challenge to Putin’s power vertical? Nato experts argue for Russian reciprocity in withdrawing tactical weapons; Katyn massacre ceremony to be attended by Putin.
The first of the double bombings outside a police station in Ingushetia is thought to have been carried out by a male suicide bomber linked to last week’s attacks, although no one has yet claimed responsibility. The Moscow bombings have shattered the myth that Putin is effective in controlling terrorism, says the Moscow Times, which also notes the different responses of the ruling tandem to the events. Too bad the authorities are ‘focusing their efforts against the people and not against the terrorists‘. A new law, written by a United Russia member and adopted this week, will ban the media from reproducing any statements issued by anyone deemed to be a terrorist, reports The Other Russia. The Washington Post writes on Russia’s concession to Polish history in Vladimir Putin’s scheduled attendance at today’s 70th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the Katyn massacre.