January 1, 2005, Politics is grand larceny by other means...
Thanks to this week's visit to Pravda, we learn that Georgy Kirpa , former Ukrainian Transportation Minister and organizer of the (now unsuccessful) presidential campaign of Victor Yanukovich was found dead of an apparent suicide, amidst the surfacing of allegations of over $130,000,000 in missing state funds (intended to build a bridge) were evidently diverted to the Yanukovich campaign are coming to light. Some speculate this was not a suicide at all. We, of course, won't even talk about the possibilities of what Mr. Kirpa might have been able to tell the new government about, oh, election fraud, in the event of questioning...
Our good buddy Pooty Poot is just about finished nationalizing Russia's oil and gas industries, new Ukrainian President Yuschenko was poisoned by dioxin, and now we have this... Kirpa... thing... It would seem that the Russian Bear is... apparently not someone or something you want to be found in a cage with, these days...