For anyone who ever harbored doubts about the brutal nature of the Russian regime, an afternoon reading the newly published British report of the death of defected Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko should be a frightful reminder of the ruthlessness behind the Putin regime.
Litvinenko defected to Britain in 2000, after becoming a whistleblower and bold critic of the Russian system and security services. He took a principled and highly dangerous stand against the war in Chechnya and was a close friend of Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky, whom he had once been ordered to kill and refused. (Berezovsky was subsequently murdered in 2013.)
