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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061203/ts_afp/britainrussiaspy
The Observer and the Mail on Sunday both suggested a possible link between Litvinenko and the Russian oil company Yukos, which has seen a series of deaths and accidents involving those associated with it.
The first said the US Federal Bureau of Investigations had accompanied Scotland Yard detectives during questioning of another Russian exile, former KGB agent Yuri Shvets, in Washington.
Shvets -- who has links to dissident Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky -- reportedly compiled a file Litvinenko had in his possession containing potentially damaging revelations about Moscow and the state takeover of Yukos.
It also quoted a London-based Russian academic as saying Litvinenko wanted to blackmail senior Russian intelligence, business figures and "corrupt officals and sources in the Kremlin" with that secret information.
That could have made him an enemy not just of big business but of the Kremlin, too, it suggested.
If you Google "Pichugin Gorin" and look at the dates when those murders and disappearances began, they started way before Putin ever knew he was going to end up President.
This is crazy. These people are getting away with this outrageous spin - making it look like Putin was somehow behind all of the murders and disappearances of human obstacles to the growth of Yukos in the nineties -- because the American press for some reason is cleaning up after them.
Either that or American journalists are too dumb to Google "Nevzlin" and come up with the goods on Pichugin.
