"He didn't agree to it immediately. We spoke a month
ago, and he went back and forth but finally today he agreed to
it."
Source: Yevgeny Rodionov, regional construction
minister of Russia's North Ossetia province, regarding the
appointment of Vitaly Kaloyev -- who served less than three years
in prison for the murder of a Swiss air traffic controller he
blamed for the loss of his family in a 2002 midair collision -- to
high-level post in regional government.