Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Grandpa Hassan bites the dust

After a good meal Grandpa Hassan bites the dust


Russian mobster gunned down outside Moscow restaurant, turf war fears






Aslan Usoyan better known as Grandpa Hassan, 75, was shot by a sniper in Moscow as he left his favorite restaurant. His fortune came from control of Sochi site of next year's Winter Olympics and a bottomless pot of rubles in construction work and unions.

Here is the Guardian's article on it: http://gu.com/p/3dh9y

Informed coverage from some specialist websites like Russian Criminal Tattoo blog and a couple of posts from In Moscow's Shadows blog and here

Watch an English news report here




here is one that he survived from two years ago


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