Connect to share and comment  Russian activists bitter, angry
over attacked campaigner's death   Colleagues and friends on
Tuesday expressed shock and anger over the sudden death of
Russian journalist and activist Mikhail Beketov, who was left
crippled after a 2008 attack linked to his work that has yet to
be solved be the authorities.  Beketov, who died Monday aged 55,
had been painstakingly regaining his strength and abilities
after assailants brutally attacked him with baseball bats and
left him for dead in November 2008.  But five years later, those
who ordered and carried out the crime have not been found
despite a promise by Vladimir Putin in 2011 to "push the probe
along".  Beketov, who ran an independent and critical newspaper
in the Moscow suburb town of Khimki, had strongly opposed the
building of a new road through a local forest.  He connected the
repeated attempts on his life to the local authorities, who had
lobbied for the Moscow-Saint Petersburg highway project.
"Nobody is trying to find thos