I hope this leads to Putin expulsion anyway http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/ruble-hits-80-to-us-dollar-as-free-fall-accelerates/513387.html
So no surprises there then - Litvenenko's murder probably approved by Putin. The call for Russia to be punished as a result will be met with much laughter in the Kremlin of course.
I expect we'll punish Russia by selling off more prime London property to their top mobsters. That'll teach em.
Hasn't any one noticed there has been a concerted effort to de-stabilise Putin for sometime...........?? There is no way I'm a 'Red' but there is something else behind all this.... Besides............who bumped off Dr David Kelly?.............It wasn't Putin was it?
Of course there has. There are always efforts to destabilise leaders of countries. But Putin is immensely popular at home and will not be troubled. For years now Russia has been promoting the destabilisation of the EU and NATO. Anti-EU groups in many Western countries get information, encouragement and funding from the Russians. This is not in the least surprising, since obviously Putin would prefer the EU/NATO to be as weak and as divided as possible. Simples.
If Polonium 210 is so radioactive how did Litvenenko's killers manage to get it into a teapot without poisoning themselves? Doubt if they'll make old bones either.
Some folk manage to handle cyanide, arsenic, and nitroglycerine without killing themselves, don't they? It is not difficult to murder a person by shooting, stabbing, strangling or drowning them, or poisoning them with something cheap and widely available. Polonium is extremely expensive and unobtainable except to state agents. So using Polonium as the medium in Litvinenko's case was obviously done deliberately in order to make the point crystal clear as a warning to others - he had crossed the Russian state and this was the payback. It has taken the UK authorities 10 years to produce a statement of the bleedin' obvious.
Yeah.. Do you know how radioactivity works Pete? I've got lots of knives, quite a few firearms. (Don't have any cyanide at present). All undeniably lethal if you choose to make them so. But you can't die by standing next to them and if you were to be killed by any of them your body wouldn't need to be buried in a lead-lined coffin. Radioactive isotopes are kind of a bit different.
Point taken. But the killers left a trail of radioactivity I speculate because I understand the report states that the trail of radioactivity left by Lugovoy and Kovtun around London posed a significant risk to public health and that readings inside Lugovoy's hotel room were "off the scale". Alexander Litvinenko may have been ready to testify about Russian mafia and Moscow links
Just to make it clear in response to another thread on this forum, I can't think why anyone would hate Russian people in general, why would they? To most people it's quite clear where the problem lies. The Putin Critics Who Have Been Assassinated
