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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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ClippetyClop
What a quaint fantasy world you have created this morning in a desperate attempt to ignore what is actually happening.
PTownsend
Russia currently ranks 149th on World Press Freedom list. Putin is reported (because Russia does not have a Norway-like free press, it's near impossible to know what all is true behind the fossil fuel curtains) to have control or 'partial' control over media.
https://rsf.org/en/ranking?#
Putin's authoritarian powers and his control over 'media' must make the globe's anti-democracy, pro-authoritarian supporters happy. Not me
Madverts
Your conspiracy theories are tired, bush.
gcbel
Not credible even from just an evidence-free, speculative perspective ;(which is what you’re offering of course).
The FSB can do this without raising one person to this degree and galvanizing opposition.
GdTokyo
The FSB definitely tried to kill him and if the pilot had not diverted and the Germans not pushed so hard, he’d be dead.
It’ll feel like a luxury prison right up until he gets shanked or mysteriously “falls” out of a window as numerous Russians critical of Putin have been known to do (Note to self: stay away from windows in Russia.).
Vlad is now so pathetic that he jails journalists for RETWEETING a joke about him. I kinda really want to hear said joke now.
Desert Tortoise
His actual rhetoric is not extreme at all. It is the Kremlin and its many stooges and apologists who attempt to portray it that way.
lostrune2
They jailed him just for missing probation check while outside the country --half the time in a coma-- recuperating from a life-or-death medical emergency?!
That's lame (like that Myanmar military junta's reason for jailing Suu Kyi)
A tiny trace amount of a potent nerve agent can wreck huge havoc
In London 1978, mere 0.2 milligram** dose of the poison ricin from the tip of an umbrella was enough to kill Georgi Markov
(**Modern medicine and antidotes have advanced a lot since 1978, so it probably takes a bit higher nowadays)
bass4funk
Oh, I definitely agree with that. Lol