It was supposed to be an effective public relations move, creating doubt and sowing distrust among the Western European public. Two days before the presentation of the report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on the downing of the...
1. Exotic means of murdering The most dramatic insight is the large number of Kremlin critics murdered by exotic poisons and other means. That the Kremlin is accused of murdering critics of President Putin is not new, but the...
The murder of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko was carried out by a Russian State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi and businessman Dmitry Kovtun. This operation to eliminate the defector was personally approved by FSB Director Nikolai...
The Kremlin has been very busy lately, inside and outside of Russia. Every day it seems something remarkable comes to light about Putin or Russia that just begs for comment if not deep analysis. A week or so ago, the jaw-dropping...
Like a dose of polonium, the “moral idiotism” of Vladimir Putin has succeeded in infecting all of Russia with a pathology it won’t be able to escape even after his departure and has already “transformed his...
As the defenders of Vladimir Putin do everything they can to muddy the waters about his role in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, his opponents are in all too many cases unwittingly aiding this process by focusing on side issues like the...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
