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...Stephen Harper. For one thing, it would be impossible for opponents to place Ignatieff anywhere near the sponsorship scandal since he had been living abroad, in the United Kingdom and the U.S., since 1978. As well, Ignatieff's background - son of one of Canada's most renowned diplomats, a Russian aristocratic ancestry and a five-year term as director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy - was impeccable...
...with Polonium 210, which is 250 million times more toxic than cyanide. In order to get this obscure substance experts said one needs access to a nuclear laboratory. And the only reference to it as a weapon was found in a 1994 paper only published in, you guessed it, Russian. But even more importantly, why would the quite professional Russian secret services murder someone slowly, giving them over three weeks to blame them, and do it with a substance that could only point in their direction...
Litvinenko had myriad enemies, and the Kremlin was definitely topping the list. But either Putin has lost the art of subtlety, or the West is actually facing a scarier prospect: Russian leadership is losing even more control over its intelligence services. If that’s the case, then it’s indeed worthy to quote Dame Judi Dench in the latest Bond: “Christ, I miss the Cold...
...Coming in the wake of the recent killings of former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London and of journalist Ana Politkovskaya in Moscow, Gaidar's episode suggests that Russian political life may be reacquiring some traditional dark patterns. All of the incidents, after all, are taking place against the backdrop of the start of a fierce struggle over who will succeed Putin, whose second (and constitutionally mandated last) term as president will end in 17 months...
...Gaidar's illness and murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Litvinenko. "The deadly triangle - Politkovskaya, Litvinenko and Gaidar - would have been quite desirable for some people who are seeking an unconstitutional and forceful change of power of Russia," Chubais said, hastening to disclaim any state's involvement. Hence, the Russian media interpreted his statement as a hint at the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, once Putin's key ally, now an exile in London, who has been accused by Putin supporters of having Politkovskaya and Litvinenko murdered in order to compromise and weaken Putin. Stalin, we should remember, was well served...