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...invitation to be the guest of honor at a meeting of European Union leaders in Finland in October. Yet the way he dominated headlines around the world for much of the year - for better and for worse - may have come as a surprise even to the canny former kgb man, who has been in office since 2000. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...bizarre radiation case involving former KGB agents takes over national headlines, “The Good Shepherd” will be entering theaters; no studio could have orchestrated such a perfect introduction. In the pantheon of movies that have dealt almost exclusively with the CIA, few have delved into the actual creation of the agency, which makes this Robert DeNiro directed film all the more unique and exquisite...
...supporting role as Wilson’s trusted assistant Ray, John Turturro (“Mr. Deeds”) displays both comedic timing and frightening composure. In a particularly excruciating torture sequence, Turturro relies upon his voice more than his fists to frighten a cornered KGB (the Russian language equivalent for Committee for State Security) agent. With a supporting cast that also includes Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup, and DeNiro himself, it is a feat for Turturro to upstage them...
Putin, says Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general who is now a maverick Duma deputy, is known for keeping score and for a long memory. So the idea that he would want an infuriating gadfly like Litvinenko to disappear is not beyond reason. But the President's defenders scoff at the idea that he might have been involved in Litvinenko's death. Putin, they say, had no need to get rid of Litvinenko; the exile was an irrelevant crank. Milton Bearden, a former CIA spy in Moscow, as well as other experienced intelligence hands, agrees it would be nuts...
...substance, at levels approaching those found in members of Litvinenko's family, implying they had inhaled it soon after its release--possibly from the vapor given off by a drink into which it had been slipped. The Russians who met Litvinenko in the bar included Andrei Lugovoy, a former KGB bodyguard who had met Litvinenko in the 1990s when serving as Berezovsky's security chief at ORT; Dmitry Kovtun, a former Soviet army officer who has lived in Germany for many years and has known Lugovoy since they were 12; and Vyacheslav Sokolenko, a graduate of the same military school...