After Oil4Food broke, I saw that official "Russia" had declared (via Pravda) they'd not used any of the illicit oil4food monies. That they had been above aboard. 2. At a later date Russia began wrangling at the US (again) making "dire" threats, and countries like Estonia, etc., clearly said they'd be facing their guns towards Russia, if Russia did not clean up its act.
Diplomacy via checkmate. No time at moment to bring up the links.