RUSSIA SENDS OUT A HIT MAN

摘要

Dmitry medvedevhas made his name talking up liberal ideas and blasting corrupt bureaucrats. But when his nation's pride is at stake, Russia's president sounds like his hard-nosed mentor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. As Medvedev revealed last week that the 10 Russian spies arrested in the U.S. last June were betrayed by a mole inside Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, and that the turncoat had since fled to America, the usually mild-mannered president added with relish that a "Mercader" had already been sent to deal with the traitor-a chillingreference to Ramon Mercader, the secret agent sent by Joseph Stalin to kill archrival Leon Trotsky with an ice pick.