tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8119431684867910557.post8844372435630446819..comments2023-11-05T13:12:36.685+03:00Comments on Mark MacKinnon's blog: Litvinenko, Lugovoi and the KGB coupmarkmachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667875925403626247noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8119431684867910557.post-28960755766200344982007-05-24T23:02:00.000+04:002007-05-24T23:02:00.000+04:00And also take a look at this: http://kommersant.co...And also take a look at this: http://kommersant.com/p-10772/Berezovsky_Luguvoy/<BR/><BR/>You know why Berezovsky is sure that Lugovoy will be killed? I'll tell you. As soon is Lugovoy is eleminated, the only live person who could shed the light on the Litvinenko case will be Berezovsky himself. But he'll never tell you the truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8119431684867910557.post-51175527442613062222007-05-24T22:52:00.000+04:002007-05-24T22:52:00.000+04:00"An old agent himself, he understood that in doing..."An old agent himself, he understood that in doing so he had broken the KGB code."<BR/><BR/>First of all he has broken the code of law and morality. No one in western media has ever noted the fact that he was prosecuted in Russia not for being "dissident" or being "fierce critic of Putin". Before fleeing to London he was arrested on the criminal charges. He used his KGB (FSB at that time) belonging for blackmailing businessmen. He was in custody for some time, but than he was released on the security of a written undertaking not to leave territory of the Russian Federation. Do you think he would have been released in case KGB wanted to eliminate him? Bullshit. That would have been an excellent opportunity. It would have been cheaper than to spend millions of dollars on pollonium.<BR/>What he was doing in London was just the attempt to justify his status of political refugee. And he was perfect in this role because it was all his nature - to be provocateur. He played his role in Russia, then he played the same role in London.<BR/><BR/>The problem of the western "free press" is that there is no options to choose from. The only position is that Litvinenko was a "fierce critic of Kremlin" while in Russia we have all the range of opinions to choose from. We have expertise from different sources - Kremlin, Russian, British, Chechen? Canadian. And you have a "free press" but no choise.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately absolute majority (I guess 90%) of your readers do not read Russian. In the Russian articles about Litvinenko there are a lot of logical sence, much more than in the western sources. Mark, If you want to be unbiased you should give your readers the opportunity to read alternative versions of the events you are describing. Translate some articles for them. Give them the opportunity to think themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8119431684867910557.post-2195304747086905682007-05-24T22:38:00.000+04:002007-05-24T22:38:00.000+04:00Hi Mark,Could you inform me about why the "traditi...Hi Mark,<BR/><BR/>Could you inform me about why the "traditional" opposition parties such as Yabloko and SPS do not support the opposition activities carried out by the Kasparov lead Grazhdanskiy Front and the Kasyanov lead RNDS? <BR/><BR/>I haven't seen any link pointed to their web pages from Rufront, RNDS or from any other related site.<BR/><BR/>And one more question. Is Oborona the only opposition youth movement or it's just the most powerful? <BR/>I saw the organization called SMENA. But on their web page they didn't publish anything since 25th march. Do they still exist or they united with Oborona?<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>Zoltan SuranyiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com