Violence against Kremlin Critic

Senseless street crime or a premeditated assassination attempt? Washington, DC police officials in conjunction with the Prince George's County (a MD suburb) Sheriff's Department have continued an investigation in the murder of  Kremlin critic Paul Joyal. This article speaks to the still unresolved tensions that exist between Russia and the United States. Although a lot of the evidence points to the idea that the crime was a random "robbery gone wrong", many Beltway pundits have included the possibility of an assassination attempt. As the article points out, "The onetime master spy, a frequent lecturer on  Russian activities in the U.S., said he has received anonymous threats in letters and telephone calls." Many pundits wondered why it took so long for such an event to happen. But, rumors aside, the issue at hand, now more than a year old, invokes similar sentiments from over a half-century ago. A man's murder has evolved into a global argument--a series of rumors that have, despite contradictory evidence, morphed a single murder into a global dispute. 

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