Putin finally did it. When he decides to strike, these pictures are a testament to what happens to you. He tried to do it on Victor Yuschenko a few years back but the poison only disfigured his face. This time, the poison was precise and lethal. Alexander Litvinenko died of overdose of Polonium 210, quantity so large that it could have been produced only in a nuclear reactor( still small enough to be put on the tip of a safety pin!!). Hail the Russian Democracy and hail the world of Vladimir Putin.
True, at least in the classical sense, cold war has ended. Putin is West's partner in its fight against global terrorism. But behind the scenes, Russia has seen some of the most blatant forms of state sponsored hooliganism. Remember Yukos? Remember Mikhail Khodorkovsky? Russia's richest man is rotting in some jail in Siberia. Interestingly, the spy killed in London, Alexander Litvinenko, by poisoning also had a dossier which talked about how Kremlin pressured the stockholders of Yukos to sell their stake to Gazprom.
Energy assets have been consolidated under state owned Gazprom and then these have been used as a tool to scare regimes in Georgia,Ukraine and others that do . This is some interesting kind of state sponsored Russian private equity game going on. If Russia has democracy than so does Jordan, Iran, Syria, Egypt & Saudi Arabia. Putin is as big a despot as Hosni Mubarak & King Abdullah and someone needs to step up to stop him.
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