[george76]

Putin probably had a hit out for him for a while.

The KGB got an opportunity and took it.

They may think that this publicity will shut up many of their other critics.

Good news from the soviet view point ?

[ML Capitalist]

The false imprisonment of Yukos CEO Khodorkovsky, the murder of Politkovskaya, the poisoning of Ukraine president Yushchenko, the support for Belarussian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, the opposition to the Orange revolution, now this.