Whatever the outcome of the Litvinenko affair, the damage to East-West relations has been done. Or perhaps, it has simply exposed the latent Russophobia that still resides in the West.
Day by day, the story of a grisly tyrant taking out a good ole boy scout has fallen apart. But the propaganda machine is still [...]

Last time out, I detailed some fairly logical reasons why Polonium is a poor choice as a murder weapon.
Not the least of which being that it leaves a trail and puts the poisoner at risk as well as the victim.
You can add one more. If you want to gag somebody - a ‘fierce critic’ [...]

Since bloggers discovered that Polonium 210 could be bought on the Internet, one of the on-line isotope stores took down its website.
It’s back up today with a new front-page setting the record straight about Polonium. The copy contains this wonderful line: ‘Although it obviously works, Polonium-210 is a poor choice for a poison.’
Reporting hasn’t [...]

Suddenly the whole Litvinenko business is looking more like Austin Powers than James Bond.
Aha. ‘The Trail of Poison Leads To Moscow’ deduced the Spiegel yesterday, as a number of BA flights were grounded. What kind of secret agents leave their dabs everywhere they go? It’s like sticking up a bank while posing in front of [...]

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The crescendo of Russophobia has climaxed with the international press declaring a new Cold War.
Are we at war with Russia? Well, with Putin, certainly, in case anyone hadn’t noticed. Ever since he started throwing his oil weight around.
It’s a war which puts some very strange bedfellows on the [...]

Bloody Russians!!!
What a bunch of Putin-puking, gulag-loving losers!
Especially after what they did to that nice Mr. Litvinenko.
Why don’t they all crawl back in their black hole behind the Iron Curtain!
Along with such calls from all the British tabloids for the last three days, The Guardian today suggests we might actually feel sorry for [...]

Tributes to Sasha Litvinenko, the sob story spy, are on all the tearstained pages of the UK tabloids today.
Probably the Daily Mail drivels it best. ‘He was honest, courageous, loving husband . . . etc.’
Blimey. You would never know he was a devious little toe-nail puller from the KGB. Or that his patron, Boris Berezovsky [...]

If I simply stood anywhere near Boris Berezovsky, I’m sure my hair would fall out and my skin would turn yellow.
Litvinenko is simply the last in a long line of stiffs associated with Boris, a line of corpses that stretches back to the mid-nineties. One died from a mysterious nerve toxin applied to the rim [...]

This was always was one of my favourite Ray Charles numbers. Now there’s a new version out in Russia. It’s called, Let’s OD on DDT.
According to the St Petersburg Times:
The country has seen a spike in the number of people who have died or suffered illnesses in the past six weeks from drinking disinfectants.
The Tver [...]

In the last two weeks, 500,000 German newspapers carried ads with the headline, ‘Comrades, Russia Is Waiting For You‘.
On offer to Russian expats in Germany is: an assisted resettlement package to Kaliningrad, including subsidised bills, free train travel, free phone installation, a chance to collect Russian and German pensions and dual citizenship.
By far [...]