Tales of rigged auctions, bent deals...
That's part of the problem
TALES. Many of the comments are. No proof. Assumptions. Bumping off a politician maybe some Russian or the other idea of making a party donation. Corruption - already commented, when needed the UK will bribe. Their criminal side sorted themselves out after the fall of the USSR. Street fighting initially.
Take one currently locked up. Poisoned, recovers, goes back to Russia and is locked up, for longer now. Fraud mentioned. Trumped up or is it? He's given mass media access while in prison.
Another shot in the street. Anybody could do that. Nerve agents - tricky one but they are made they don't grow on trees, one vaguely similar can on peanuts.
Equally the state could have done some or all.
Money for Yeltsin's election campaign figures in the sell off. How - no details given. Why did he need it if all is rigged? His idea along with Putin was to get shut of communism.
C4's Guru-Murphy did one of his bombastic interviews last night to a Russian diplomat. He threw all of the news that has been used re Ukraine at him. The bloke could recall exactly what has been said at the Russian end. Only weak area was the special operation aspects but over all it's easy to see why the term might be used. He also picked up on the withdrawal from Kiev and correctly pointed out that isn't what Russia have said. His comment about damage to civilian stuff is likely to be correct at least in some cases. If military aspects are there it will be hit. Russia does have drones flying around. One popped up during an ongoing interview.
So back to square one really in terms of are they winning or loosing.
Even a president was suggesting ways he could make money and other possible jobs. As usual in the USA that one will have been "rather" rich.
I wonder why. Didn't Cameron give people a clue not long ago. There are very probably others.
