Democracy's Alive And Well In Russia (Pt. II)

Last month, after the mysterious murder of an anti-establishment Russian journalist, I asked "I wonder how that happened? Me thinks Bush's friend Pootie-Poot is a bad man." At this point, that seems more of a statement than a question.

Reuters: Poisoned ex-Russian spy dies

Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital on Thursday three weeks after he was poisoned in what friends said was a plot orchestrated by the Kremlin.

Russia has dismissed the allegation as nonsense, saying it was silly to suggest the Kremlin wanted to kill Litvinenko, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin...

...British police said they were investigating what they called the "unexplained" death.

If Moscow were found to have had a hand in his poisoning there could be far-reaching diplomatic consequences. It would be the first such incident known to have taken place in the West since the Cold War...

We should probably pick our allies better.