tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33696095.post5933466563849228272..comments2024-03-20T16:27:56.522+00:00Comments on Norfolk Blogger: Sleepwalking towards a row with RussiaNich Starlinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04237390959601973501noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33696095.post-72004531370377616832007-07-25T02:04:00.000+01:002007-07-25T02:04:00.000+01:00This is another reason why blogs are so important ...This is another reason why blogs are so important - to read the varying opinions and facts. You just don't get much in the American papers of worth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33696095.post-3793614111077030772007-07-18T12:48:00.000+01:002007-07-18T12:48:00.000+01:00The government is right to take a very hard line o...The government is right to take a very hard line over Lugovoy. It is not beyond the ability of the FSB to have someone murdered and get away with it. Litvinenko could have been killed thru a staged car crash, mugging, burglary-gone-wrong or any number of ways. Our govt. might then have suspected the Russian government of involvement, but would have been very hard pressed to prove it. However, to kill Litvinenko using a very high profile FSB agent, using a substance (Polonium) that could only have been sourced from one of a handful of governments, and a method moreover that would leave a perfect trail from Moscow to London and back in the footsteps of Lugovoy shows that the Russian government not only wanted Litvinenko dead, they arrogantly wanted it to be completely obvious to everyone that they were responsible. Presumably this was to send a message to the British government that they shouldn't give houseroom to Russian dissidents or think that they could protect them by giving them British citizenship. The message was presumably meant also for Russian expats (especially Berezovsky) here in the UK that they could be pursued and killed at will even in the UK. Berezovsky of course bought houses in Muswell Hill for Litvinenko and his family to live in _ and also for a Chechen dissident.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33696095.post-37626490570390314752007-07-18T00:04:00.000+01:002007-07-18T00:04:00.000+01:00So when will your troops leave Georgia and Moldova...So when will your troops leave Georgia and Moldova then ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33696095.post-13109672125744165912007-07-17T12:30:00.000+01:002007-07-17T12:30:00.000+01:00Fully agree with Masha. Lugovoy case is an example...Fully agree with Masha. Lugovoy case is an example of double standards in so called "democratic" countries. BTW during Putin's ministry Russia has never sent its army abroad in contrast to UK or US.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33696095.post-12815479519072278222007-07-17T00:10:00.000+01:002007-07-17T00:10:00.000+01:00There is a difference, although I take your point ...There is a difference, although I take your point about dissidents in the UK.Nich Starlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237390959601973501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33696095.post-55068517101019483262007-07-16T23:32:00.000+01:002007-07-16T23:32:00.000+01:00It makes me laugh, when reading these stupid lines...It makes me laugh, when reading these stupid lines about Putin as a world threat to democracy and so on. What do _you_ personally know about how it is going _here_, and what on earth gives your Miliband right to give instructions to a fully sovereign state about changing its Constitution?<BR/>Why are the UK authorities keeping whining about getting Lugovoi and at the same time are refusing to extradite Berezovsky and Zakaev whose charge is completely proved?<BR/><BR/>You can google a few names - Abu Hamza al-Masri, Lotfi Raissi, Babar Ahmad, Rashid Ramda, - I promise this will be of interest to you :)linleaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07412543608403975961noreply@blogger.com