Why Are Putin's Enemies Dying? Ben Bolton, NewsMax, revisits the coincidence-conspiracy question. He reviews the unsolved assassinations (or attempts) of Paul Joyal, Alexander Litvinenko, Yuri Shchekochikin, Paul Klebnikov, Yan Serguinin, Viktor Yushchenko, Anna Politkovskaya, Andrei Kozlov and Movladi Baisarov.
THE KREMLIN'S LONG SHADOW Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair investigates in the April 2007 issue, the murder in London last November of former K.G.B. agent Alexander Litvinenko. The case had all the elements of a spy thriller: an exotic poison, an exiled tycoon, and plenty of hidden agendas. But can the polonium 210 that killed Litvinenko be traced back to Moscow? Dead reporter 'had Kremlin secrets' Adrian Blomfield, The Age, provides a motive for the assassination of Kommersant journalist, Ivan Safronov. He was working on a story that claimed the Kremlin was secretly providing Syria with missile systems.
Suspicions still swirling about Russian bombs The Hamilton Spectator revisits the connections between Alexander Litvinenko's assassination, the Ryazan apartment bombings in Moscow and the Chechnya War, as described in Litvinenko's book, Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within.
KGB expert who accused Russian authorities in poisoning of ex-FSB officer found shot near his home in America AXIS Information and Analysis, reports on the attempted murder of Paul Joyal, just days after he accused the Russian government of involvement in the poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. In an interview broadcast last Sunday on "Dateline NBC," Joyal also accused the Russian government of trying to silence its critics. "A message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: If you do, no matter who you are, where you are, we will find you, and we will silence you in the most horrible way possible," Joyal said. 
Prominent Russian defense correspondent dies in mysterious fall The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports on the suspicious death of Kommersant journalist, Ivan Safronov. A former colonel in the Russian Space Forces, Safronov, 51, wrote about military and space issues for Kommersant. Most recently, he had written about changes in the defense leadership and problems in military training that had led to the deaths of young soldiers. He also wrote about defense technology and military testing failures that often went unacknowledged and unreported by the army. Who's killing Putin's enemies? Michael Specter writes in The Guardian's Observer Magazine, that Putin has presided over a staggering economic boom in the six years since he took control of the Kremlin. Meanwhile, a dozen of his critics have been assassinated and the country's vast natural resources are in the pockets of a chosen few. The two-part essay reports on the corruption and gangsterism gripping Russia.
The Last Days of a Secret Agent, NBC Dateline NBC Dateline's Justin Baldins reports on the Litvinenko investigation, and includes an interactive and video link regarding the 'conspiracy theories' surrounding the assassination.
The Polonium 210 Fallout A.J. Strata, in his blog, Strata-Sphere, revisits the Polonium-210 contamination pattern. The essay also includes a link to the latest Health Protection Agency (HPA) report.
Berezovsky ordered murders of Litvinenko, Politkovskaya - Kadyrov. The ITAR-TASS News Agency quotes Chechnya's acting president Ramzan Kadyrov as knowing that Boris Berezovsky was the one who had placed the murder contracts on former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London and investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow.
Russian investigator in ex-spy Litvinenko’s case meets with Scotland Yard in London AXIS Information and Analysis reports that Russia's top prosecutors earlier ruled out that Lugovoi, whom British media have called the key suspect in the Litvinenko case, could be extradited to the U.K., saying he was a Russian citizen and could not be tried elsewhere.
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