Russian media calls murder “An Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem”
Russia’s most (in)famous spammer, Vardan Kushnir, 35, had been found dead in his apartment in downtown Moscow on Monday, July 25th. Someone smashed his head with a heavy object, authorities say, and then searched throughout his entire apartment. The authorities have obviously got no clue as to who that someone might have been. And, as a matter of fact, they don’t seem to really care: every day between 10 to 20 people meet their violent death in Russia’s capital, and a significant part of these crimes remains unsolved (Russia’s Interior Ministry reports 1935 unsolved murders, 73.000 burglaries and 11.400 robberies between January and May in this year alone). There is no special reason for Moscow’s law enforcement officials to give Kushnir’s case any special treatment, so they most probably won’t. But Moscow-based media is awash with comments and speculations, expounding one simple, albeit largely irrational, theory: someone (ranging from God almighty to an irate IT office worker) finally punished Vardan Kushnir for his seemingly unstoppable spamming activities.
