or he is using it politically after the fact ?
Firstly, for all those who believe the nonsense regarding Russia not having a free media the Litvinenko case is first page news throughout Russia. This one paper has 3 articles devoted to the case on the front page, and the articles are critical.
Secondly, on the street Russians have a far different view than Americans. To quote, but one Russian, "Indeed. If it was the FSB there wouldn't be an implication.
On the otherhand if an exiled oligarch, with tons of cash, were trying to overthrow the Russian government (After publically stating he would do just that), this is exactly the sort of high profile slander he (as a former media mogul) would employ.
Seems we've found the rat and his name is Berezovsky."
Thirdly, most in Russia thought the Anna Polikovskaya murder was the work of either a Russian colonel or the governor of Chechnya, NOT Putin or the FSB. The FSB agents are professionals, and they would not have allowed their picture to be taken by a security camera as we saw with Polikovskaya's murderer.
"Investigators found images of the killer on video recordings made by the camera in the entrance to Politkovskaya's building and in Ramstore. The recordings, which were transmitted to the server of a private security company, show that the assumed murderer was a thin young man about 180 cm. tall dressed in dark clothes. He enters the building before her murder and leaves afterward. His facial features are barely distinguishable on the recordings, but salespeople in the pharmacy near the building's entrance helped create a sketch of him. The same person was spotted by surveillance cameras in the Ramstor where Politkovskaya had done her shopping. Investigators concluded from the Ramstor footage that the killer was aided by a woman of about 30 who followed Politkovskaya in the store. Law enforcement agencies are now searching for both of those people."
Now let's pray the individual who posioned Litvinenko is brought to justice.
It appears the murderer of Anna Polikovskaya has already suffered that fate. Colonel Movladi Baisarov, a suspect in the Polikovskaya murder, engaged the police in a gunbattle yesterday and lost.
