Archive for November, 2006
Polonium Shopping Spree
By Sean at 30 November, 2006, 11:55 pm
ABC News is reporting that Polonium-210 can be purchased over the internet:
Polonium-210, the radioactive substance that killed former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, is easily available on the Internet, but it could take $1 million to amass a lethal amount, according to leading authorities.
Polonium-210 isotopes are offered online by a number of companies, including United [...]
Gaidar Radar
By Sean at 30 November, 2006, 6:24 pm
RIA Novosti is reporting that doctors have “deemed” that Yegor Gaidar was poisoned, but the nature of the poison has yet to be determined. What is interesting about this report, is that it quotes no doctor, only Gaidar’s press secretary, Valery Natarov. The report reads:
Doctors deem poisoning cause of Gaidar’s illness – [...]
Read More >>The Litvinenko Bandwagon
By Sean at 29 November, 2006, 5:10 pm
I wonder if the “famous people always die in threes” applies in Russia because it appears that according to some the Litvinenko poisoning is beginning to inspire a rash of mysterious illnesses among Russia’s rich and famous. Or so implies the Financial Times in regard to the “mysterious illness” that has befallen Yegor Gaidar.
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Litvinenko Smuggled "Nuclear Material" for the FSB?
By Sean at 29 November, 2006, 6:34 am
I have no idea what to make of this report. That is except that this whole affair is getting stranger and stranger . . . and if true, scarier and scarier.
Litvinenko ’smuggled nuclear material’
By Cahal Milmo, Peter Popham and Jason Bennetto
Published: 29 November 2006
Alexander Litvinenko, the poisoned former Russian [...]
Read More >>Putin’s "Light Calvary"
By Sean at 28 November, 2006, 7:59 pm
In his speech to the 8th Komsomol Congress in 1928, Nikolai Bukharin called for new methods for fighting bureaucratism in Soviet institutions. While there were already groups like the “Group for the Struggle Against Bureaucratism,” the “Help Groups of the RKI (Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate)”, and a variety of “shock brigades” to fight bureaucratic [...]
Read More >>The Litvinenko Obsession
By Sean at 27 November, 2006, 11:38 pm
The English language press is obsessed with the who, what, where, when, why, and how of Alexander Litvinenko’s death. A Google news search turns up thousands of articles, whether they are original compositions or reprints of syndicated reports. And with that the web of connections between Litvinenko and the numerous players in the [...]
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