tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post116453324435969915..comments2023-10-28T03:07:12.758-07:00Comments on Mirror On America: Britian and EU Face Diplomatic Dilemma After Death of Ex Russian SpyBrian http://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-1167819683813214822007-01-03T02:21:00.000-08:002007-01-03T02:21:00.000-08:00Putin is turning Russia around from the catastroph...Putin is turning Russia around from the catastrophe that it was ten years ago. I think that he's doing quite a bit of good for the average Russian, and you can see this sentiment in the polls. To tie Putin to the murders of Politkovskaya and Litvinenko without a shred of evidence is rather irresponsible. Neither were sophisticated assassinations. In fact, I think one could say that the Litvinenko assassination was the exact opposite way of how a discreet political assassination to quell descent should take place. Putin has been doing a good job at dealing with corruption which thrived under years of incompetent rule (think Yeltsin cowboy years, or Gorbachev completely screwing up the inevitable economic reorganization of the USSR). It wouldn't surprise me if Litvinenko was killed because of shady business dealings. Politkovskaya also reported on alot more than just the Kremlin, primarily the shady russian under/businessworld. The exact group of people that Putin is trying to wrangle in could very well be the ones behind this. It wouldn't be the first time that a reporter is murdered, or that an ex spy with potentially damaging information on someone with alot of money to lose is killed. Those same people of course have high tailed it out of the country where by they can still run their empires, but are beyond the grasp of the Russian government (those same people that cheated their way to the top, or at least their money, are embraced by western govts). It is just hard to see it as cut an dry as the international media is portraying it. <BR/><BR/>and just a disclaimer, I'm not Russian, but I've lived in Russia for a number of years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com