TODAY: “Merchant of Death” arrested in Thailand. Russia’s European University shut down over elections project? Putin supports Armenian government. Reznik allegedly ends hunger strike. The biggest story in the UK press today concerns the “Merchant of Death” – a Russian arms dealer arrested in Thailand. Viktor Bout, the former Soviet army officer also known as the “Lord of War”, has been wanted for years in several countries. Bout says the accusations against him “resemble more a script for a Hollywood thriller.” This letter to the Moscow Times claims that the European University at St Petersburg was shut down because it had received a European Union grant to implement a project on election monitoring.