`  NeilN: It's in the Russia Profile article. Didn't you even bother to look at it?  It says:   ``Tony Halpin, Moscow correspondent for the (London) Times wrote: ``The fate of Alexander Litvinenko may be hot news in Britain, but Russia's press is almost completely ignoring him.`` He cites a page-one story in the English-language Moscow Times as an exception. Otherwise, ``none of the major dailies covers the story today (November, 21),`` he asserts.  I looked further into Halpin’s premise that the Litvinenko story was being ignored in Russia. Before Halpin’s story appeared, his paper, the Times, had covered the Litvinenko case on two previous days, the 19th and 20th. In the U.S., the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times didn’t begin coverage until the 20th. But, in Russia, several online news outlets kicked off coverage on November 11, as did a Chechen website apparently located outside of Russia. That same day, the Russian Service of BBC broadcast an interview with Litvinenko himself. By the 13th, three Moscow papers had picked up the story (Kommersant, Moscow Times & The Moscow News). But, the earliest story I found in the London Times wasn’t until the one on November 19.   The London Times may have been late, but it made up for it with the number of stories. I counted six Litvinenko stories on the 20th and 6 six on the 21st. With the one story on the 19th, that’s a total of 13 stories in three days. During that time, the New York Times ran just one story. The Washington Post ran three, but one was an editorial.   So, the level of Russian coverage around the time of Halpin’s story was actually consistent with that in the American press. Moreover, coverage in Russia began a full eight days earlier than it did in the Times.``  A search engine investigation also refuted Halpin’s claim that the story found no interest in Russia.  This clearly refutes the incorrect allegation that is currently in the article. Why are you defending information that will mislead the Wikipedia reader?   tikva2009`