Russian Police Raid Author’s Home

From Stratfor:

Head of Russia’s Panorama think tank, Vladmir Pribvlovsky, said June 1 that law enforcement officials searched his apartment and seized computers with the manuscripts of two books he was writing about Russian President Vladmir Putin, Russian media reported June 4. Pribvlovsky was told the seizures were part of an investigation into the unsolved murder of Col. Gen. Anatoly Trofimov, a former head of the Federal Security Services who was shot and killed in 2005. Pribvlovsky said he suspected officials wanted to see what was to be published about Putin.