Posted on 03/14/2015 3:04:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Russian president Vladimir Putin and his long-time ally Victor Ivanov, who is currently head of Russia’s narcotics agency, have been implicated in helping run a drug smuggling and money laundering ring in St Petersburg in the 1990s. The allegations were made by ex-KGB officer Yuri Shvets who spoke at the inquiry into the death Alexander Litvinenko yesterday.
Shvets testified in front of Ben Emmerson QC, expanding on a report he had compiled with fellow ex-Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, a few months prior to the latter’s death from polonium poisoning.
According to Shvets’ sources, which include the late Litvinenko, an anonymous party “sufficiently close to Ivanov to have been his former assistant”, as well as the Ukrainian security services, “Mr Putin was directly involved in a company that was laundering drugs from Colombia” [sic].
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The inquiry is currently investigating the possibility that Litvinenko’s murder was orchestrated by the FSB, something that Shvets says could not have been done without the knowledge and consent of “the top authority in Russia, which is Vladimir Putin”.
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Classic coke head behavior.
yeah...like who?..putin or bammy the moslem boy?
Yes, we can be very dissatisfied with current American leadership, you can always make comparisons but it’s no lie that a whole lot of people are imprisoned in Russia for what are likely petty things, yes, you can say the same here. But look into it, even small-businessmen are that somehow ran afoul of the rules and that tells me that the Oligarchs are running things.
I think it was Montaigne who, in one of his essays, advocated that the deaths, destruction and mayhem of wars could be averted if differences between nations were resolved by a physical contest to the death between respective leaders.
Ladies and gentlemen, in this corner, we have Vladimir Putin of Russia, and in the opposite corner...
I seem to recall a certain giant had the same idea. He lost his head over the idea. His name was Goliath.
So that is what influenced Obama to run guns into Mexico.
And I will leave the room, because I can't stand to be in your presence.
Yeah, enough of this false equivalence BS. Since when, when we are complaining about Obama, does someone chime in to say “but Putin?”
“Ladies and gentleman, introducing the final match on the card tonight. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin versus Barack Hussein Obama II!”
Thunderous applause, cheers and jeers.
I wonder how much the Colosseum tickets and media rights would sell for? Enough to cover the US national debt? assuming the skinny punk won.
Our American fighting man is superior to the Russian, I prefer to let our fighting men defend our nation and NATO against Russia.
That saying was childish in the 60s, and childish today.
Who is that a picture of in No. 11?
Because I am hearing impaired I cannot watch TV and don’t recognize faces. I cannot be alone. It would be SO helpful if people would ID who’s pictures they put on. We’re just not all as fortunate as you are. Sorry to complain.
Love to see that, but wouldn’t pay a plugged nickel to see it. Both are commie rat bastids and hopefully would kill each other. I believe they are different sides of the same coin.
kitkat, it’s an animation of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin laughing. Vladimir V. Putin was President of Russia from 2000 to 2008, and again the Russian president from May 7, 2012 to ?. On the other hand, it might be an impostor because Pres. Putin never laughs. How is that word correctly spelled: impostor or imposter or o-b-a-m-a? I could never tell which.
How about just to the level of Jack Ryan who ran against Obama for Senator in IL? The press got a lefty judge to open sealed divorce papers in which Ryan’s ex accused him of all kinds of improprieties.
What do we know about Obama’s life?
Makes one wonder more about the media and their friends.
Perhaps Putin is a real-life Walter White?
She makes Angelina Jolie and any other Hollywood female I can think of look like a train wreck.
Smearing Putin? LMAO. His is a smear, a smear of dog shite.
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