The Dark Nights of the Kremlin Critics

Being a critic of Russian Tsar ,oops I mean President Vladimer Putin is rapidly becoming as dangerous an occupation as being a police recruit in Baghdad.
Today Russian military correspondent Ivan Safronov in moment fell from the window of five-story building in Moscow. Colleagues say he had been working on a story detailing sales of high technology weapons to rogue regimes in the Middle East. Last week Paul Joyal, a critic or the Putin Government, was shot outside his home in Maryland. When one adds this to the case of the radioactive man Alexander Litivinenko and a host of lesser known names such as Yuri Shchekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya and Vladimir Sukhomlin the body count is fast approaching alarming proportions.
It seems now that the strong arm tactics are spreading out from print and television to the internet as well. Here's the story from Publius Pundit.