This is the operating method of this brutal regime of thugs. Whether poisoned, tossed from a window, or simply disappeared, this regime deals with political opponents just like the Tsars or Stalin and his successors. The Russian government and its enablers resemble a mafia organization more than a government as we understand it in the West. And yet, on this site, and throughout far right wing America, Putin is a man we should admire and trust. What a reversal from the eighties when it was lefties with a love affair with the brutality of Russia.