Пишет Маня Гессен ("Dead soul" в журнале "Vanity fair"):
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:CwJnQQr59X0J:asset.soup.io/asset/0141/0053_df99.pdf+masha+gessen+%22dead+soul%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnkOne of those exiles, Marina Salye, now
lives not in England or France but in a vil-
lage in Russia, more than 100 miles from St.
Petersburg. Throughout the 1990s, she was a
leading liberal politician in St, Petersburg, one
of only two women prominent on the national
liberal political scene since perestmika. (The
other, Galina Starovoitova, was shot dead in
her apartment building in St. Petersburg in
1998.) In 1992, Salye headed a committee
of the St. Petersburg City Council formed to
investigate the activities of the deputy mayor,
Vladimir Putin. After the committee present-
ed the results of its investigation, the city coun-
cil passed a resolution calling for the mayor to
fire Putin and to have the prosecutor's office
investigate apparent corruption and misap-
propriation of funds, The mayor ignored the
recommendation. In early 2000, in the run-up
to the presidential election, Salye campaigned
against Putin, attempting to draw attention to
the conclusions of her investigation.
Then, abruptly, she left St. Petersburg and
effectively disappeared. Several people have
told me why. Around New Year's Day 2001,
they say, she received a holiday telegram from
President Putin, "Here is wishing you good
health," the telegram said, "and the oppor-
tunity to use it." The next day, she packed
up and moved to the most obscure place she
could find. Saiye today won't speak publicly
about this or anything else."
Правда, не знаю, насколько Гесе можно верить.