[Trudy Rubin] Deadly Russia fire reveals a lot about Putin, his people
ViewpointsApr 1, 2018
I was on the phone this week with my Russian friend Val, trying to plan a trip to Moscow, but all she wanted to talk about was Sunday’s tragedy in Kemerovo -- and how disgraceful it was that CNN International ignored this disaster because of nonstop coverage of Stormy Daniels. Kemerovo is a Siberian city where at least 64 people, two-thirds of them kids, died from a fire in a mall cinema because the doors had been locked and the fire alarm shut off. The children were frantically text-messaging t