Nov 27, 2006
Don't Rush to Judgment
Tom Parfitt recommends that we don't rush to blame Putin for the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
"The idea that Litvinenko was a crusading dissident in the mould of Alexander Solzhenitsyn is risible. People who had never heard of him two weeks ago are now trumpeting his 'courageous, high-profile stand against the Kremlin'. The fact is that Litvinenko was a paid employee of Boris Berezovsky, the oligarch and archenemy of Putin."
Right now the identity of the person or persons responsible for killing Litvinenko remains an open question.
"The idea that Litvinenko was a crusading dissident in the mould of Alexander Solzhenitsyn is risible. People who had never heard of him two weeks ago are now trumpeting his 'courageous, high-profile stand against the Kremlin'. The fact is that Litvinenko was a paid employee of Boris Berezovsky, the oligarch and archenemy of Putin."
Right now the identity of the person or persons responsible for killing Litvinenko remains an open question.