Word: kremlinã
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...Western media has been too lenient with Putin’s administration for far too long. But instead of condemning, say, Anna Politkovskaya’s death, the Chechen campaign, or even the Kremlin??s nuclear dealings with Iran, the media has made its criticism on the basis of irrational and sensationalistic fantasy scenarios. As comparisons with the luckier spy James Bond flooded in, The London Times’ Edward Lucas recommended the West got ready for a new Cold War. The Financial Times’ John Thornhill nostalgically remembered Churchill calling for Europe’s union...
...soon as he landed in London loaded with two decades of Russian intelligence information, he became an ardent critic of Vladimir Putin’s administration. He decried the Kremlin??s autocratic tendencies, provided interesting information about Pope John Paul II’s attempted assassination in 1981, and was even quoted saying that a leftist Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was the “KGB’s man in Italy” during the Cold War. Suffice to say, this left him with a long list of enemies...
...busy day. An official British citizen since the previous month, he met with former KGB contacts and an Italian informant for sushi and tea. Apparently, he was looking into the recent murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who had been a fervent critic of the Kremlin??s actions in Chechnya. Litvinenko fell ill soon thereafter, and less than three weeks later he died of poisoning at the intensive care unit of the University College Hospital in London. His renegade life might have ended but the media frenzy had just begun...
...truth about the frigid feelings between Moscow to Kiev lies beneath: retaliation for last year’s Orange Revolution, which was built on the premise to take the country away from the Kremlin??s spheres of influence. Former Soviet republic Belarus, on the other hand, has an authoritarian government keen on close relationships with Moscow and still enjoys cheap energy. Thus, gas from murky companies like Gazprom flows with political scents—and according to Putin’s desires...
...Shevardnadze did not cooperate. And if the economic pressure didn’t get the message across, two Russian “peacekeeping” battalions deployed in the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions on the Georgian side of the border served as a 723-kilometer reminder of the Kremlin??s presence...