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Last November or December I noticed the attacks against Russia

Here is an explanation of these attacks.

Spinning Khodorkovsky

In order to win positive media internationally, Khodorkovsky brought in a savvy public relations executive ... Margery Kraus, president and chief executive of APCO Worldwide, a Washington subsidiary of Grey Advertising, one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world...With the advice of APCO, Yukos created the Open Russia Foundation in London in 2001 with a paltry $15 million "to build cooperation between Russia and the West." Henry Kissinger joined the board of the foundation and traveled to Moscow when the U.S. Agency for International Development signed on to a joint project with the foundation to promote "Russian democracy". (Also present at this event was George Bush Senior.) ... The foundation also gave $100,000 to the National Book Festival, a favorite charity of Laura Bush, the wife of President George Bush. APCO also launched a series of advertisements in March 2005 on the international and editorial pages of the New York Times website. ...One edition included an attack on the Khodorkovsky prosecution co-authored by Stuart Eizenstat (incidentally a member of APCO's international advisory board) and Jonathan Winer - both former Clinton State Department officials.

In addition to the media campaign, Khodorkovsky also pumped money into powerful and influential investment funds such as the Carlyle Group, run by Frank Carlucci, Secretary of Defense for President Ronald Reagan and a Deputy Director of the CIA during the Carter Administration.

http://www.corpwatch.org/print_article.php?&id=12236

This is just one citation I could google out right away. It is basically a common knowledge that Khodorkovsky, Berezovskiy and their likes spend millions of dollars every month for negative PR campaign against Russia and Mr. Putin personally. Lots of efforts are put in by Poland and Baltic states because good relations between Russia and the West will sink them into oblivion. So these attacks are little wonder.