Putin administration's critic poisoned

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../npoison19.xml

This hearkens back to the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot in an elevator, but who had also claimed she personally had been poisoned by agents of Putin in 2004.

In fact, the article claims that Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent, was investigating Politkovskaya's death when he was poisoned. This is also reminiscent of the poisoning of another Russian journalist in 1978, presumably by the government.

I wonder more and more now how much Russia can manage to keep under wraps, or if they're trusting the U.S. relations with North Korea and the middle east to keep the spotlight.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I didn't mean to imply that the U.S. should be doing something, just that one of the purportedly 1st world countries is killing off their detractors systematically, and it doesn't seem to be getting much attention outside of Russia.

Presumably every country in the world has something going terribly wrong in it at some time or another, but the ideal which I'm sure we all aspire to--sanctity of the press-- is supposed to ensure that we can find out about it, and do something about it. It's more of an ideological problem to me than a matter of risk vs. reward.

I suppose really what I want is for increased global pressure to be put on Russia so that it makes it harder for them to sustain this organized effort to subdue the truth.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Watts

So unless it can be proved this guy was holding something important back, this is all just tinfoil hat nonsense. All defectors think they're gonna be murdered. Very few of them are.

Not that he was holding something back, but the fact that he was investigating her death, and was notable as a defector.

I mean, come on, thallium found in his system? Hair loss? I wouldn't call that food poisoning. (Well, literally, maybe)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Is that a hypothetical question? (I really don't know.)

How ya doing, buddy?