This is a conspiracy I don't believe

Sorry Bob, Aussie media have often reported on his exile life in London especially round the time of Litvinenko's murder so I assumed it would be general knowledge. Masha Gessen, the Russian journalist who wrote The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin was out here in Australia last year and I gathered from watching interviews with her that Mr Putin is not a man who'd ever forget and just move on. Khodorkovsky is still in jail and no doubt they'll come up with new charges to keep him there when his release nears.

I'm not sure Berezovsky was killed by Putin's agents - maybe he did just hang himself, but I wouldn't put it past Putin.

I get the impression he has people killed not just to silence then but as a warning to others. He wants people to know that he is responsible for the deaths. Not too many people ever doubted who was responsible for Litvinenko's death from radioactive plutonium. There has been little attempt to make Khodorkosky's trials in any way appear fair and just, and the journalist Anna Politkovskaya who the Kremlin had openly threatened, was shot dead on Putin's birthday.

In fact, the UK government has named the man who they believe was responsible. Putin won't hand him over.

Yet you take issue with those who point out the nature of Putin's corrupt dictatorial government, rooted at its very inception in criminal profiteering. Doesn't sound like you are all for accountability for those who call themselves capitalists.