I have a bad feeling about this Moscow fire burning now near the Kremlin. Maybe it was an accident. Maybe it was deliberately set. But it seems all too convenient that this thing broke out at the end of the election day in which Vladimir Putin was returned to power with the people’s mandate. It will be interesting to see what the Kremlin has to say about this fire. Will Putin blame it on Chechen terrorists, accurately or falsely, and use it as an excuse to institute a formal dictatorship? Who will be the Marius van der Lubbe of Moscow? This bears close scrutiny.