But for all the talk of Mr Putin's authoritarianism, the Russian state is chaotic, factional, corrupt and criminalised; its nominal servants engage in lots of shady activities without Kremlin approval.Whether or not these various slayings are connected, the chaos is one of the few moderately firm conclusions from this week's dramas.
IT LOOKED disturbingly like a sequel to Lebanon's bloody civil war of 1975-90: gun battles in city streets, kidnappings, execution-style slayings and tearful vows of vengeance.
The brutal slayings inside jail of two of Colombia's most notorious traffickers this month have silenced such talk.
Saddam was by no means alone in the tyrants' gallery.And yet, in between the slayings and sackings, Baghdad also gained a reputation as one of the most cultured places known to history.
And the critics say there is a crucial difference between films, plays or books, where the players are just passive onlookers, and video games, where they are active participants in the simulated slayings.
In regions such as the environs of Baghdad, where the two sects overlap most closely, sectarian slayings have prompted fearful households to move to zones where their own sect predominates a sparse but grim evidence of ethnic cleansing.Things might not have turned out this way, were it not for the sequential misfortunes of recent history.
Though the country has been plagued by mass slayings since drug violence surged in the mid-2000s, the fact that the victims were young, with no link as Mr Murillo Karam pointed out to criminal gangs, and yet were seized by municipal police and savagely handed over to their executioners, has left many people disgusted at the level of lawlessness.
The police declared that Maoist rebels had killed the swami, who had been trying to reconvert Christians to Hinduism, but many Hindu groups blamed the slayings on Christians.
Major characters are killed off frequently, especially at weddings There have been a total 133 deaths so far in the drama, with three executions, four poisonings and five slayings.
After he fled, he became one of the nation's most-hunted fugitives, charged in a number of murders that included the slayings of businessmen in Florida and Oklahoma.
He told the website the surgical technique of whoever was carrying out the slayings has improved as they had gone on.
