TODAY: The Merchant of Death, Russia pressures the UN on Kosovo, problems with Poland, nationalizing the airport, Moscow Mayor looks to climb, and a look at Putin’s PM power play. Reputedly one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers, the Russian citizen Viktor Bout, has appealed directly to Moscow for help from his jail cell in Thailand. “I, Viktor Bout, call on the government of Russian Federation as a Russian citizen, and ask them to take measures for my liberation, as I am jailed under fabricated charges,” he said. The state news agency also reports that Bout’s brother is claiming that U.S. officials tried to extradite him to the United States without the move being sanctioned by a court. Bout’s extradition hearings will take about 60 days, but the Russians insist that they never ordered his capture in the first place.