Cathy Young published this opinion piece about the attack on Lev Ponomarev last week, and today it is being carried by the International Herald Tribune.

Ponomarev, 67, was assaulted by three men outside his apartment building in Moscow and suffered head and chest injuries. In a ghoulish twist, according to the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Ponomarev’s biographical page on Wikipedia was altered to include April 2, 2009, as the date of death – 10 minutes before the first news reports of the attack.