Over at Teekay’s

The Frankfurter Allgemeine reports today (story by subscription only) that Vardan Kushnir, “Russia’s biggest spammer,” was killed with several blows to his head last week. He ran three language schools, the “Center for American English,” the “New York English Center” and the “Center for Spoken English,” which all inundated Russian e-mail accounts with unwanted advertising, or spam. If the media speculation about his killers is correct, we have 17.6 million suspects — that’s the number of e-mail addresses in Russia.