The lengths they'll go to to publicize a Bond film

Don't know if this one's getting much coverage in the States: London has turned into the set of Smiley's People.

Former Russian spy Alexander Livtenenko, who later defected and became a British citizen, fell mysteriously ill and died after meeting with some former associates. This became a whole lot less mysterious once it became clear that someone had stuck a chunk of polonium-210 into his food, thus irradiating him from the inside out.

Anyway, the Russians aren't too happy at how seriously the British police are looking into this one. From a daily email sent out by the BBC's Newsnight:

Tensions are rising between Britain and Russia over the poisoning of the former Russian secret agent, Alexander Litvenenko. Moscow is accusing British officials of helping to whip up an "unacceptable" campaign against Russia. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that relations between the two countries were being harmed.

...Is anyone else resisting the urge to splutter, "Well, you shouldn't have bloody well killed him then!"?