Russia

[tagryn]

All of the depressing stuff that's been going on in Russia in terms of their anti-democracy slide makes a lot more sense if you see it through the prism of the KGB/FSB being back in control.

Also, here's the best argument I've heard re: whether Litvinenko was assassinated:

The sources point to the fact that the plot was “highly sophisticated,” that it involves a former FSB agent — Lugovoy — and that it would have taken a whole team of people with access to polonium-210 to pull it off. Right — but all of that would also be true if a team of former FSB agents were smuggling polonium either to sell for use in a weapon or, possibly, for use in a weapon of their own...

[The FSB] could have sent a message with a bullet and a note. The dose that killed Litvinenko would have cost literally tens of millions of dollars to obtain; it doesn’t make sense that they would have wasted it on him. Accidental self-contamination in the course of handling material that he was smuggling? That makes more sense.

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[erikred.livejournal.com]

The thugs made the shift from People's Thugs to Mob Thugs just fine. Bastards.

[tagryn]