28 APRIL 2007, Page 17

Fine one to talk

Sir: Can Anne Applebaum really complain that the Russian government went ahead and printed posters of ‘fat British capitalists in bowler hats squashing Russian workers with their shiny boots’ (‘Putin will stop at nothing’, 21 April) when the cover of the issue she was writing in depicts Mr Putin taking shots at a map of the British Isles?

Julian Thomas Beckenham, Kent